Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
by puzzlingcaptcha on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:33AM
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As everyone seems to be fixated on pendrives and FAT, consider also that virtually every Linux-based consumer-grade NAS needs to support R/W NTFS. Typically it was through FUSE with considerable loss of performance/efficiency.
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Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
by Denvercoder9 on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:55AM
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> consider also that virtually every Linux-based consumer-grade NAS needs to support R/W NTFS
Do they? I don't think egress/ingress from external drives is an essential feature for consumer-grade NAS.
Internal drives are typically formatted with a Linux-native filesystem and accessed through SMB/Samba from Windows machines.
Re:Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
by puzzlingcaptcha on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:06AM
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> I don't think egress/ingress from external drives is an essential feature for consumer-grade NAS
Is it not? I think most consumer NASes on the market support NTFS-formatted external drives (be that USB or eSATA) and need a r/w capable driver.
The parent said "de facto filesystem for portable data storage", NAS for Windows is a very specific use case. For data portability, compatibility and wide adoption matters, and that is undoubtedly where FAT and it's variants rule.