On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 14:11 +0100, Marc Deop i Argemà wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2008, Jan de Groot wrote:
then FAT32 wouldn't be a dead filesystem either.
Well, in my experience almost every USB stick or newly buyed hard disk comes formated on FAT32. I don't wanna get into why is that, but it's just the way it is.
By the way, I know many people that having a perfectly stable systen with a UPS doesn't want to use journaling.
External harddisks and USB sticks come preformatted with FAT32 because NTFS isn't compatible with Mac OS X. FAT32 is the only choice for these vendors if they want cross-compatibility. When you install Windows on a >32GB partition, the setup doesn't allow you to format FAT32, only NTFS. Reasoning behind this is that you get inefficient cluster sizes on FAT32 then, and scandisk operations at bootup take ages to complete with many errors due to a missing journal.