The problem with it is you didn't solve your biggest actual problem, you just haven't had a problem bite you in the ass yet so you think your problem is solved.
replyI am not sure the problem is actually fully solvable. I think SQLite helps at least a little.
reply> I wish exFAT would die in a fire and a journaling filesystem would replace it as the "one filesystem you can use everywhere"
replyWhere exactly is everywhere? Win32? All of Linux? BSDs? MacOS? IOS? ...
Everywhere exFAT is supported now. Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD would be fine.
replyPresumably Microsoft fear making it easy to swap OSes and access the same data.
reply"I can use Linux because if I get stuck I can just switch to Windows and still access my data" is a comfort that probably keeps people from even trying Linux (or other OSes)?
Why else would MS not support BTRFS/ZFS/Ext or whatever?
{I'm not saying that I think this works.}
> Why else would MS not support BTRFS/ZFS/Ext or whatever?
replyYou seriously can’t think of another reason? File systems are complex. Maintenance is a huge burden. Getting them wrong is a liability. Reason enough to only support the bare minimum. And then, 99% of their users don’t care about any of those. NTFS is good enough
Something MacOS and Windows support natively would be a good start, it could grow from there.
replyLooking at *all* my external drives now... that would be great.
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