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      • Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.net
        114·
        1 year ago

        The only reason why there’s NTFS hate in the Linux community is because it’s associated with windows.

        This tribalism bullshit is tiring.

          • Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.netEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yes, NTFS lacks features that surely one of the many Linux filesystems have. But it also has features others do not. There is no one-siize-fits-all filesystem.

            • Ext4 is generally faster than NTFS, but cannot handle as large of files
            • ZFS has a multitude of features that NTFS does not, like zraid, dedup, etc., but usually at the cost of RAM.
            • BTRFS is included in the Linux kernel and also has many features, like being able to conveniently switch hard drive raid-like configurations on the fly with rebalance, but doesn’t support fs-level encryption
            • NTFS lacks in many features the others do not, and is a “non-standard” filesystem. However, it’s one of the few with better cross-platform support, more advanced access control, pre-emptive journaling, reparse points, etc.

            It’s quite obvious that my calling out tribalism has felt to you an attack.

            We get enough of this “us vs them” mentality in literally every topic and medium. I’d just like a little more nuance and genuine discourse. So I apologize if I’ve offended you.

      • nakal@kbin.social
        83·
        1 year ago

        I’ll try. Short: It’s not as powerful as ZFS.

        Examples:

        • no low cost snapshots (don’t harm performance)
        • no checksums, no self-healing
        • 256 TB limit
        • magical reserved $ and OneDrive filenames
        • magical 8.3 mapping
        • broken standard API calls (CreateFileW instead of fopen)
        • Sikeen@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 year ago

          also ntfs doesn’t support many common symbols. so you can’t use them