Am 30.08.2016 um 21:14 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On August 30, 2016 8:58:17 PM GMT+02:00, Volker Armin Hemmann > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Am 30.08.2016 um 20:12 schrieb Alan McKinnon: >>> On 30/08/2016 14:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:08:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>>> >>>>>>> ext2 doesn't have a journal, that's why I suggested it in the >> first >>>>>>> place. >>>>>> My point was against all the journalised filesystems (that >> includes >>>>>> NTFS), not against your advice ;) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> OP is looking for an fs to put on a memory stick that will work >>>>> everywhere: >>>>> >>>>> - vfat >>>>> - exfat >>>> He asked for something that would work "across Gentoo systems". >>>> >>>> >>> How does exfat not fulfil that? >>> >>> >> because exfat does not work across gentoo systems. ext2 does. > Exfat works when the drivers are installed. > Same goes for ext2. > > It is possible to not have support for ext2/3 or 4 and still have a fully > functional system. (Btrfs or zfs for the full system for instance) > > When using UEFI boot, a vfat partition with support is required. > > -- > Joost
ext2 is on every system, exfat not. ext2 is very stable, tested and well aged. exfat is some fuse something crap. New, hardly tested and unstable as it gets. And why use exfat if you use linux? It is just not needed at all.
