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Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 by wumpus on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:41AM (#27881030)
> NTFS is the de facto filesystem for portable data storage

I've never seen it used that way, guess I'm weird.

One hopes that the people who do use it will work on it, but given the patent fiasco with exFAT, I wouldn't either look at or use the code, personally.

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Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 by vanderZwan on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:38AM (#27881448)
I dual boot between Linux and Windows on my laptop, and I use three physical hard drives: two SSDs, each dedicated to a different OS, and one hybrid HDD with more storage that's "shared" between the two (and also used as a simple way off passing data between them).

Maybe things have changed now but NTFS was the only reliable option for that last drive when I first set things up this way a few years ago.

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Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1 by rkagerer on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:43AM (#27881484)
Me neither. I'm not sure what's up with all the talk here about NTFS for portable storage. If "portable" is meant as in USB key, I've never encountered one formatted that way. If it's portable as in a disk in an enclosure, then I suppose I can follow the rationale.
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