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Comment by mmooss

7 hours ago

> I wish exFAT would die in a fire and a journaling filesystem would replace it as the "one filesystem you can use everywhere"

Where exactly is everywhere? Win32? All of Linux? BSDs? MacOS? IOS? ...

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tombert  5 hours ago

Everywhere exFAT is supported now. Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD would be fine.

  • pbhjpbhj  4 hours ago

    Presumably Microsoft fear making it easy to swap OSes and access the same data.

    "I can use Linux because if I get stuck I can just switch to Windows and still access my data" is a comfort that probably keeps people from even trying Linux (or other OSes)?

    Why else would MS not support BTRFS/ZFS/Ext or whatever?

    {I'm not saying that I think this works.}

    • iknowstuff  3 hours ago

      > Why else would MS not support BTRFS/ZFS/Ext or whatever?

      You seriously can’t think of another reason? File systems are complex. Maintenance is a huge burden. Getting them wrong is a liability. Reason enough to only support the bare minimum. And then, 99% of their users don’t care about any of those. NTFS is good enough

ghrl  6 hours ago

Something MacOS and Windows support natively would be a good start, it could grow from there.