Linux file system that can share between windows and linux

[bedHedd]

I looked up UDF, it looks similar to exFAT in that they are designed to be used with disks/flash storage.

See the same reason why I didn’t opt for exFAT

@bedHedd

why not exFAT

Initially, I was going to go with exFAT as, it has better compatibility between the two systems. However when I read the post about how exFAT is more prone to data corruption/loss, I changed my mind,

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/18cix5r/is_exfat_the_best_option_for_cross_macwindows/kcb5kht/ hmmm now this is swinging the pendulum back to btrfs Looking at btrfs. This repo has the driver for btrfs which links to this repo for converting a ntfs to btrfs app. I’m going to go with btrfs because it has journals so if the drive …

I didn’t read too much more but it seems that it is due to exFAT not having journals
https://old.reddit.com/r/editors/comments/6k3u4k/whats_the_problem_with_exfat/djj82k9/

@ThatGuyB

Correct. exfat is an extension of fat32 to support more than 4GB files. It is a non-journaled file system. Journaled file systems include ext4, xfs, ntfs, btrfs, zfs, jfs and more.

Furthermore, the support to converting NTFS to UDF Isn’t as developed as btrfs.