There’s been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list… Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

  • Fonzie!
    2•3 months ago

    FAT32 does not just work for my Linux OS.

    To people who just want to browse the web, use Office applications and a few other things, ext4 just works and FAT32 really just doesn’t.

    I get the point you’re trying to make, FAT32 also has a small file size and is missing some features, ext4 is like that to for instance Bcachefs.
    But FAT32 (and exFAT and a few others) have a completely different use cases; I couldn’t use FAT32 for Linux and expect it to work, I also couldn’t use ext4 for my USB stick and expect it to just work as a USB stick.

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 months ago

      I also couldn’t use ext4 for my USB stick and expect it to just work as a USB stick.

      Why not? It can be adapted to a smaller drive size fairly easily during filesystem creation.

      • Fonzie!
        0•3 months ago

        True, but for me and many others USBs are also just massively portable. Since macOS, Windows and many others (phones, consoles, smart TVs…) don’t speak ext4 but do all speak FAT32 and exFAT, that makes exFAT the way to go on USB drives.