Why can’t we have exFAT???

It’s fully implemented in Linux for a long time…having it at least for reading external drives would make our lives so much easier for dealing with large amount of files from other systems like Mac…

Quote from ryecoaaron

It still isn't a native Linux filesystem and doesn't support everything that a native linux filesystem does.

The whole point of a NAS is to not have to connect the drive to a system other than the NAS.

In a perfect world, yes. But in real life most of us do not have high speed ethernet, and when you have a terabyte or more of files to transport from a Mac to the server or vice-versa, that simple thing would be SO much easier. And besides, that shouldn´t be that difficult to implement, and would make life so much easier for a much larger audience...

Quote from ryecoaaron

Most people have gigabit ethernet which should comfortably do 100 MB/s. If you are connecting a usb hard drive (not ssd or nvme), it most likely can't sustain more than 180 MB/s. So, you aren't saving a ton of time by connecting it to the mac.

Really? This isn't an OMV problem. The exfat filesystem standard is maintained by Microsoft. Are you going to have them make exfat posix compatible and then implement the changes in the Linux kernel?

First of all, I have to say how awesome is the fact that you guys put up a system like this together and offer it to the community for free. So I’m not in a million years implying that you’re under any obligation whatsoever to do anything…just to be clear…

That said, I’ve been struggling with many little things like this because I want to make it work and for the most part I’ve been successful so far, even learning so little Linux as I do, which is not easy after the initial level even for a smart guy like me (and I know I am because my mother and my wife always told me so, which should count as irrefutable evidence… 😉).

E.g. I have a 2.5gbe connection. I can transmit files at about 45 mb/s back and forth. Thunderbolt connection, which I have been using (but insist in disconnect every time I turn the computer down, again, after stopping this behavior for a while …) get’s me to the 150 mb/s range…not near the advertised speed of at least 2000 m/s for reasons some of you guys explained to me in another post. But much better.

Yesterday It took me I think an hour to send 1tb of photos from the Mac to the server. This server has a 20gb USB port, that I assume (have yet to be able to test it, already ordered a suitable case to test with some ext4 formatted NVME) would get me over 1000 mb/s as there would be no middle men…

About been easy to implement it’s obviously out of my knowledge limits, I just assumed so because when I connect an exFAT drive to my Linux laptop it just works, but I can be completely wrong on this of course.

In the end, I understand that OMV, unlike other systems, is made also for the Linux-humble of us, so everything we can have from the UI is very useful and desirable, as it can save us from so much pain! 😊. And those who don’t need it can just look the other way…but I suspect there a lot of us out there!

🤙🏻

Quote from ryecoaaron

if you are just doing these syncs from time to time, plug the drive in, mount it on /mnt, and rsync the files to the destination. The mount and umount commands aren't hard.

I’ll learn it, thanks!