The main reason exfat is used on USB is so that your typical user can yank the stick out without properly unmounting it - which of course, they do all the time as they assume since it's USB the computer will magically know the second before that they intend on yanking it out and thus flush disk caches, etc.
If you properly handle your removable medial (unmounting, ejecting under windows, etc.) this isn't a problem you can use whatever filesystem you want. Note that any caching filesystem will be much faster. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of American Citizen Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2023 6:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PLUG] Is this something to worry about? Hello: A friend bought me a new Kuesuny KSPro100 USB stick, size 512Gb which claims to have very fast read/write transfer rates. I ran f3write and f3read and found 156 MiB/sec write and 310MiB/sec read which definitely is faster than any other USB stick I have (I have some SanDisk flash drives) Question, when I went to check this USB for the format, it came up as exfat, which is fine, but then the gparted program posted and said that it could NOT read all the filesystem (this even after I reformatted the USB back to exfat again, after removing the partition) I do have the exfatprogs module installed on my openSuse Leap 15.4 system, so I am puzzled by the gparted message [see attached] Should I worry about this? Randall
