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

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 01:25 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> easy to corrupt and fragment. 

Another thing: due to the file allocation table being all shoved into
the first bytes it tends to ruin flash memory (which has a limited
number of write cycles) faster than needed

>  However, I'll repeat that I
> haven't had any real *problems* 

I can see that, but one nevertheless should not write "FAT is reliable"
without qualifying the statement. Because it has none of the features
that make an FS "reliable"