Daniel Speyer wrote:
I disagree.
VFAT is a kludge. NTFS is better designed and more reliable, and it's
journaling.
I agree, keep NTFS. But for those who might consider converting FAT32
to NTFS: the one time I tried it, the NTFS partition ended up being buggy.
You might set aside a VFAT partition to transfer data if you expect to
shift a lot.
You know, I used to do this, but since Linux typically has NTFS read
support, it's really not necessary.
Alternatively, has anyone used Linux NTFS support *recently*? They
removed the 'experimental' warning on write support a few versions
ago, but no one I've talked to dares try it.
Years ago I compiled some kind of NTFS support into the kernel, and it
seemed to work fine, but I didn't test it extensively. As far as I
know, the support you get is safe in read-only, and with the ability to
delete files. Adding or changing the size of files would still be too
risky for me.
Angelo
