Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
by polar on Monday July 19, 2021 @06:48AM
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Is exFAT's reputation for data loss/corruption unwarranted?
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Not really.
FAT32 is very simple and normally has a copy of each FAT table stored as well. When something goes wrong with the first FAT table, there's a reasonable chance you can still use the 2nd copy. [1]
ExFAT is much more complex and AFAICT it does not have a 2nd copy of all of its data. [2]
Anecdotal evidence is that I personally lost data on ExFAT file systems, but also have had many customers with problems when they figured to use ExFAT for my backup products. If I see ExFAT in a support bundle than -by default- my suggestion for fixing issues is to reformat to a different file system. More often than not, that's the end of the open support case.
I had an external harddrive with exfat that lost all its partition information.
Worked one day, then few days later plugged it in and it was all gone.
Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
by GoblinSlayer on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:49AM
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Just write all your data twice, lol.
If one of them becomes corrupt in a non-obvious way, how do you know which it is? You need three copies to be sure.
Or you could save a hash as well
What if a bit flips in your hash file and changes that? Now you need to store your hash a bunch of times too!
I kid, this is what I do. I've recently been backing up my family photos/videos to various media and I've been hashing each file and storing a hash file alongside the media to compare to in the future.