![]() However, if you’re paranoid about data loss and need cross-platform support, I can’t recommend exFAT-you’re better off using NTFS. don’t need Linux compatibility, exFAT will do fine. a much higher probability of data loss than with NTFS or HFS+. many different types of operations,” at least on USB flash drives in a Windows environment. Ars Technica (Girard, 2013) said, (See How-To Geek, 2017 AskUbuntu.) MakeUseOf (Patkar, 2017) asserted that “All benchmarks show that NTFS is much faster than exFAT.” Flexense ( 2014) agreed that NTFS yielded the highest performance for applications involving “tens of thousands of files. FAT32 was not an option it had a file size limit of 4GB, whereas I expected to encounter files larger than that (produced by e.g., drive imagers, video editors, file compressors).īased on that Microsoft webpage, those remarks left exFAT as the sole Windows-compatible alternative to NTFS. exFAT (which someone described as essentially FAT64) was a simpler file system, designed primarily for flash drives. The next question was whether there were any non-NTFS partition formats that both Linux and Windows could use effectively. A Microsoft Dev Center webpage ( 2015) spoke of “four main Windows file systems, NTFS, exFAT, UDF, and FAT32.” UDF did not appear to be a contender: Wikipedia said it was used primarily on optical discs (e.g., DVDs) and enjoyed only limited Linux support. So I did need both the Linux and Windows sides of the equation. I had also decided that I needed a number of Windows programs for certain purposes. In this case, however, I was building a Linux system, so the Linux side was a given. If it was a problem of interactions between the Linux operating system and a Windows-specific drive format, it could presumably be resolved by getting rid of either the Linux or the Windows side of the issue. This post discusses some methods of alleviating that situation. It appeared that others (e.g., Phoronix, 2013) had similar problems when copying to or from NTFS partitions. I felt a fair amount of heat and noticed that sometimes the laptop’s fan sped up considerably, suggesting that the CPU was working hard. ![]() ![]() Excessive CPU burden appeared to be at least part of the problem. I noticed that, when I tried to move or copy large numbers of files from and to Windows NTFS partitions, those operations started out OK, but then became very slow.
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