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

[Matthew Flaschen]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 23:14 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
>> You need to give arguments to support what you're saying. You said
>> 'FAT 
>> sucks'. Please tell us why . 
> 
> 
> Please see my other post in the same thread:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2007-February/106084.html
> Further evidence can be easily found by googling for "FAT sucks" :)
> 
> This i not surprising either, it is a very old FS, coming from the
> supreme sucking "OS", MS-DOS. There is a reason even Microsoft replaced
> it with NTFS

In summary, it's mostly because it's not self-journaling and thus
(relatively) easy to corrupt and fragment.  However, I'll repeat that I
haven't had any real *problems*

Matthew Flaschen


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