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On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> ext2 is on every system, exfat not. ext2 is very stable, tested and well |
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>> aged. exfat is some fuse something crap. New, hardly tested and unstable |
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>> as it gets. |
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> If I use ext2 on the USB stick, can I mount and use it as any user on |
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> any Gentoo system from within a file manager like thunar? |
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Ext2 will work on any Gentoo system that has it enabled in the kernel, |
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the same as just about any filesystem that has been created. |
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Ext2 support is fairly likely to be enabled due to its ubiquity, but |
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you can certainly run a linux kernel without it, as has already been |
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pointed out. If you stick your USB drive in an Android phone, for |
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example, you might just find that it lacks support for the filesystem |
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(no doubt many/most Android systems using it for the OS, but since it |
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is a closed ecosystem with 100% flash they might also use f2fs, yaffs, |
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or even btrfs (which can be quite stable if you carefully control how |
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it is used, especially on read-only filesystems)). |
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Rich |
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