On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:46:53 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu 20 Oct 2016 at 20:25:04 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:03:01 +0100 > > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > If a reformatted USB stick on Debian isn't "maximally compatible" > > > I could understand the steering towards using Windows for the > > > operation. I don't have Windows but many do. They are the ones to > > > test and report. > > > > And I do. My server, home workstation and netbook run Debian, my > > working laptop and my wife's workstation run Windows, as do all of > > my clients. My experience is that Windows is sometimes fussy about > > Linux-formatted media, hence my advice. > > I acknowledge your experience and expertise and recognise its > relevance to the OP's question. Maybe Debian cannot ever get it right > when it comes to this interworking with other filesystems. > Hardly just Debian. Playing catch-up with unpublished specifications by means of reverse engineering is never going to reach 100% perfection, and Microsoft is unlikely to ever acknowledge the existence of not-invented-here filesystems. As I recall, it was some years before the Linux NTFS implementation dropped its advice to use it read-only. -- Joe
