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On Mon, 3/17/2025 2:23 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2025-03-17 15:05, Anssi Saari wrote:
>> Dan Purgert writes:
>>
>>> On 2025-03-15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>>> For example, are you allowed to put NTFS on a hot-pluggable volume?
>>>> Somehow, I don’t think so.
>>>
>>> Practically every USB stick in existence would like to disagree.
>>
>> Those are usually FAT formatted. FAT32 or the newer exFAT. No issue
>> reformatting to NTFS though.
>>
>> I've actually found NTFS on a USB SSD to be surprisingly widely
>> supported on media players and TVs and such. I've used it on Android
>> too. So NTFS has become my go-to portable FS.
>
> exFAT is better, but few TV sets support it, while many support NTFS.
>
EXFAT requires a license.
NTFS requires a license.
FAT32 requires a license (or at least TomTom may have discovered it did :-) )
One difference is, some applications of EXFAT are
covered by FRAND (where EXFAT is defined in a standards doc,
as the default filesystem for a certain piece of hardware).
In any case, whether license terms are fair and reasonable,
or are the normal kind of license terms, equipment makers
will not pay a penny more for licensing. It does not latter
what the license fee is, they don't want to pay it, whatever it is.
NTFS is journaled. NTFS is slightly harder on a USB stick,
from a wear perspective. You can improve the characteristics
a tiny bit, by disabling "LastAccessed".
FAT32 and EXFAT are not journaled. You can set the cluster
size on FAT32 and EXFAT (make it greater than or equal to
the flash page size).
BTFS supports extra large clusters, but the option is not
backward compatible (a Win11 NTFS partition with one megabyte
clusters, cannot be mounted by Windows XP, or by Windows 7).
And that doesn't include testing the Linux response, as if
an option isn't intended to be compatible, nobody is going to use it.
Paul
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