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Subject: Re: Is Microsoft Trying To Revive ReFS?
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On 2025-03-28, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:20:00 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> 
>> NTFS is certainly showing its age. But it’s not clear that ReFS is
>> really enough to take Windows forward.
>>
>
> Whatever the case, it will be another proprietary format that GNU/Linux
> cannot (easily) access.
>
> IIRC, it tooks many years befor GNU/Linux was able to correctly access
> and write NTFS files.
>
> I still would not trust the Linux kernel module for writing NTFS even
> though it is regarded to be stable and free from error.
>
> In the not-so-rare times that I must interchange files between Winblows
> and GNU/Linux I will use either VFAT or EXFAT format.
>
>
>

Is there any particular experience that you had that made you distrust
the Linux NTFS driver?

I've found it quite robust, but that is just my experience.  Neverthess,
I do still choose exfat or if necessary, vfat for shared partitions.