Filesystem woes

exfat

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>>45401092
exFAT is a proprietary Windows filesystem.

>>45401092
I don't think exFAT makes sense for a large single-volume magnetic hard disk.

It's just another currently-in-common-use filesystem that isn't as outdated as FAT32.

>>45401121
To be sure, I don't mind if it's patented or proprietary, although I suspect that the hypothetical "killer FS" would be free, if only because I think it would be unlikely that a proprietary FS would have better cross-platform support than NTFS.

Mostly I'm just shocked by the total lack of usable support for any free FS on windows.

>>45401121
He didn't say it had to be open, just feature-rich, reliable, and broadly supported.

exFAT is what I use on all my storage drives to share them between VMs and boot partitions because it'll work anywhere.

>>45401172
My understanding is that exFAT is designed for flash memory. Is it suitable for spinning magnetic disks that I want to have a long life? Is it suitable for single volumes as large as 5 TB?

>>45401071
What else would you use on Windows? I don't understand the point of this question.

>>45401071
because M$ monopoly doesn't want to use superior technology, so it's stuck with stone age shit like NTFS and NTFS2: totally not the same shit as NTFS edition. Meanwhile, zfs and btrfs can both be used on REAL operating systems like GNU/Linux.

>>45401814
There is no GNU operating system. It's just Linux, I believe BSDs support those file systems, and obviously OS X since it's Unix.

>>45401838
It's called GNU/Linux because there is also such a thing as Dalvik/Linux and GNU/HURD. BSD, solaris, OSX, and others support at least zfs and probably BTRFS too. On the other hand, M$ closedwindows...

>>45401893
>Dalvik/Linux
That's just Android, and it uses ART now.

>GNU/HURD
kek keep dreaming Stallman

Because Windows NTFS is an archaic pile of shit and they'll never make a new one that's backwards compatible with it much less any other non MS filesystem.

>>45401921
Android is the name of the distro. Android is a Dalvik/Linux (or, accordingly, ART/Linux) distro. Aside from GNU/HURD, Dalvik/Linux and GNU/Linux, there is also BSD/Linux and other variants.

>>45401071
>Why isn't there a modern, feature-rich, reliable filesystem that is broadly supported on both *nix and Windows?
>on both *nix and Windows
blame Microjew
Enjoy you're NTFS/ReFS/FATxyz

>>45401071
There really is no answer. Different operating systems and use cases.

>>45401071
>2014
>not knowing about or using AFS
stay pleb, /g/

>>45401071
extfs

>>45402015
That's bullshit since M$ has windows server editions with file systems that are grossly underfeatured for a server OS.

>>45402064
it's alright though no one uses windows as a server os anyway

>>45402064
They developed a ReFS meant for use in windows server.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-next-generation-file-system-for-windows-refs.aspx

>>45402106
Which is basically NTFS with barely an extra feature. Compare with the plethora of advanced options available to real filesystems like zfs and btrfs.

>>45401071
ext4

>>45401501
I have hard drives that are connected to a linux server most of the time, that I occasionally need to access directly from a windows laptop.

>>45402284
But there isn't a usable ext4 driver for windows.

It sounds like there really is basically no answer to this problem. What do people on /g/ who dualboot use? Surely there are others who need to access volumes from both linux and windows. Is NTFS, despite its woeful support on anything nonwindows, the standard for this?

>>45402746
There is but it breaks every time windows updates something for some reason, then you have to wait for the driver update.

>>45402788
From what I understand it is designed to be read-only and is considered dangerous to rely on for writes.

>>45402767
Use an auxiliary "share" partition, or push what you need on windows directly to its partition from within GNU/Linux.

>>45402767
I just use NTFS and ext4
I boot in to Loonix, and copy anything from my NTFS partition to my ext4 partition, it just werks
I boot in to Loonix, and copy anything from my ext4 partition to my NTFS partition, it just werks
I boot in to Windows, and the files I copied to the NTFS partition are there
Windows doesn't know the ext4 partition exists though, so I can't go from NTFS to ext4 on Windows

>>45402875
Don't use NTFS with Linux. It is unstable and can result in a loss of data. It's "safe" to read, but writing can become a concern.

FAT is well supported, but the limits make it unusable (Small capacity, 4GB file limit, various other limitations)

>>45402812
So that's what dualbooters etc. do, which is fine for some use cases I guess. Unfortunately my problem drive serves media, so it's not very useful to have only a small shared partition. I really need to be able to use the whole volume from any given OS.

It looks like Microsoft-authored filesystems are really the only ones with any hope of being useful for that. NTFS with its poor and insecure support, exFAT which I'm afraid to use for a spinning disk in continuous use, and FAT32 which is a nonstarter for a dozen other reasons.

I guess what I should really do is have only one drive that I can "take with me," keeping the other drives ext4/zfs/btrfs/whatever formatted and resigning not to be able to use them directly from windows.

>>45402909
I have been writing NTFS drives as I've described a few times for months now. I'm not encountering any problems I'm aware of, but if something is going wrong, how will I know?

>>45402909
>Don't use NTFS with Linux. It is unstable and can result in a loss of data. It's "safe" to read, but writing can become a concern.
I haven't run into any issues yet, but if you put characters like ? and : in a filename from Linux and then try to open that file in Windows, you're gonna have a bad time.

>>45402909
I've been writing to NTFS for years from linux and never have had any problem whatsoever.

>>45402944
>you're gonna have a bad time
I laughed. Thanks anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ls5j5iz2eA

Neither windows, or *nix use the god given redsea fs

Checkmate atheists

>>45403297
God can go tell his pupils to suck one if he expects the master race to bow down to its low standards.

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>>45401071
Use ReiserFS. It has some very useful features.

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>>45403812
>Use wifemurdererFS

>>45401071
>Filesystem-level encryption
This sounds like a terrible idea.

you could run a linux vm and pass the hdd to that

>>45403812
Reiser4 is obviously the best because when it murders your wife all the evidence will be encrypted automatically, so the cops can't get to it.

>>45403812
memefs/10

Because Microsoft fucking hates you. Modern filesystems work in every OS except for Windows. And writing a filesystem driver is a motherfucker. Most of the people that would be able to do it would much rather spend their time supporting operating systems that aren't actively fighting against them. I mean, even if you could get EXT2/3/4 working properly on Windows you still couldn't install Windows to it, so you'd have to use Microsoft's shitty implementations anyway. So if you're using Windows you need to accept that you're going to be gimping yourself. So instead of that just run Windows in a VM for the few things you need it for, so you can restrict their shitty filesystem to a virtual disk that's kept on a non-shit modern filesystem.

>>45401071
Install ext4 support for Windows, format all your drives ext4.

>using windows

udf works with most OSes including Windows.

>>45404672
Also, an alternative is to format the external drive with a decent filesystem, run Linux in a VM, pass the USB device to the VM, mount the filesystem in Linux, and set that mountpoint as a shared directory between the VM and the host OS.

>>45401071
Is there any reason why I should not use ZFS as my main file system? I have ECC ram in my machine.

>>45404591
>le ebin memes maymay

Kill you'reself.

If you have a home server just store all your shit there and set up samba shares. Need to access it remotely? Make a VPN.

>>45401071
redsea fs ;^)

>>45402081
>it's alright though no one uses windows as a server os anyway
Yeah just 90% of the worlds companies, aka no one.
You are an idiot.

>>45406603
>90% of the worlds companies
>using windows as a server OS
just how retarded are you?
As a client/guest OS, yeah, but nobody uses Windows for a SERVER.

>>45404850
That's actually what I was thinking about doing. There's probably a decent way to automate that with a headless VM. It might even be more convenient than just plugging the drive in physically and using it with the letter windows assigns, because if I set up the VM to have the same hostname as my actual home server, then I could have the drive be mounted with the same drive letter as it has when I use it as a network drive (since it would still be a network drive, just served by a local VM).

>>45405718
My server can't accept incoming internet connections for various reasons. Otherwise I wouldn't mind that solution so much.

>>45406628
IIS is like 30% of webservers (or 10% depending on how you count).

>>45406628
You are either trolling or never had a job.

>>45406628
God you are dumb. Get a job.

>>45406628
>doesn't remember during the heartbleed fiasco companies saying they use IIS so heartbleed didn't affect them
You're a retard.

>>45406827
I mean, VMware Player and Virtualbox can both do what you're looking for. Just have the VMs start on boot with your computer. I'm pretty sure when you pass something through to it, it'll automatically grab it in the future. Then just use the guest utilities to make a shared directory, so you don't even need to set up samba or NFS or whatever, it's built into the VM.

>>45407073
I want it to use samba though, because then I will be able to mount the drive at the same drive letter that I normally use it on.

>>45407096
Makes sense, should work. You can definitely have the VMs autostart on boot, so worst case you have to just click "connect" to attach the external HDD if it doesn't do so itself, then have automounter in the Linux VM do its thing.

>>45404672
Why can't you autist lintards keep it professional, you always get the intention of discussing with a 12 year old. Windows runs 99% of business software, so why gimp yourself by running it inside a vm on a host os that only has a total crap virtualisation feature implemented? Might as well just use windows and the 1% of useful freetard tools that are all already ported to windows.

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>>45407141
>KVM/QEMU
>total crap virtualisation

>>45407159
Yes it is, compared to vmware it is a total disaster.

>>45407253
You are aware that VMWare can be installed in linux, right?

>>45401199
exFAT is just extended FAT32. It's still FAT32 under the hood. Yes, it has some optimizations for flash storage, but ever half decent FS does these days.

>>45406977
>>45406991
>>45407034
>>45406603
Samefag as fuck.

>>45407293
And hell, when people are talking about VMware they mean ESXi which is a bare metal hypervisor anyway and has nothing to do with Windows.

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>>45407141
>>45407159
>>45407253
>>45407293
Keep calm and dual boot

>>45403812
I'm not using a file system written by a murderer, no fucking way.

>>45402909
NTFS used to have issues on Linux.

The only problem now is that Windows 8 will hibernate instead of shutdown (unless you turn that feature off). If that happens, the Linux drivers will only mount it as read-only so its not a problem.

I can also mount my EXT4 partition as read-only on Windows. It's actually rather nice.

>>45403812
EPIC!