Sharing files between Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP Pro - best disk format to use

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 2/4/07, Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Felipe Alfaro Solana a écrit :
> > On 2/4/07, Yagnesh Desai <ynd at lntenc.com> wrote:
> >> Eric;
> >>
> >> The most reliable option is to use the FAT32 file format.
> >> I am using it this way on my LAPTOP.
> >
> > I guess that you mean "the easiest". FAT is anything but reliable.
> >
> Please, tell us why you think FAT isn't reliable.

It's patented, doesn't support transactions/atomic operations, uses an
antiquated and obsolete method to store metadata with very simple
redundancy (first FAT copy, second FAT copy), doesn't support
permissions./ACLs, maximum file size is limited to 4GB, its get
fragmented easily, tends to destroy the first few blocks of Flash/NAND
memories since the FAT table is stored at the very beginning of the
disk, etc.

Other than that, FAT works pretty well for floppy disks, USB keys and
really small hard disks. For something, I would use a modern
filesystem.