Melodious Funk
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- Nov 28, 2023
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As a leading (certainly full performance) NAS OS, I cannot understand why exFAT is still not supported.
The question has been asked repeatedly for over 8 years. And I have yet to see a good reason why exFAT isn't natively supported (for import only), and when it might be.
Is there a legal issue regarding implementing exFAT in the base TrueNAS kernel? Certainly other distros have shown it can be.
In researching various forums I understand:
1. ZFS is a superior file system, exFAT lacks journaling, etc., etc., etc.. Not an answer...just poo, pooing exFAT.
2. There are many suggested workarounds of spinning up VM in jail, mount usb drive and watch out for this error or that error. Most are suggestions on how it might be done. But not very many advising this is how it IS done, reliably and repeatedly.
3. That I can mount my USB drive to another system and move data over the network. Yes easy to do but slow when my new NAS box is decked out with high speed USB ports. (Like nipples on a boar hog)
I cannot imagine I'm the only person who has collected media/data for years on external USB drives and wants to transition to a reliable, cost effective NAS and dump all my media into this NAS without having to do so over the network. This has to be a desired capability for a large majority of new TrueNAS Core users.
Something that has been asked for so many times....hasn't yet bubbled up in the developers new feature queue?
Other than this monumental gripe, I am very impressed with TrueNAS core, and continue to be as I uncover additional features.
Tx,
Melodious
TrueNAS Newbie.
The question has been asked repeatedly for over 8 years. And I have yet to see a good reason why exFAT isn't natively supported (for import only), and when it might be.
Is there a legal issue regarding implementing exFAT in the base TrueNAS kernel? Certainly other distros have shown it can be.
In researching various forums I understand:
1. ZFS is a superior file system, exFAT lacks journaling, etc., etc., etc.. Not an answer...just poo, pooing exFAT.
2. There are many suggested workarounds of spinning up VM in jail, mount usb drive and watch out for this error or that error. Most are suggestions on how it might be done. But not very many advising this is how it IS done, reliably and repeatedly.
3. That I can mount my USB drive to another system and move data over the network. Yes easy to do but slow when my new NAS box is decked out with high speed USB ports. (Like nipples on a boar hog)
I cannot imagine I'm the only person who has collected media/data for years on external USB drives and wants to transition to a reliable, cost effective NAS and dump all my media into this NAS without having to do so over the network. This has to be a desired capability for a large majority of new TrueNAS Core users.
Something that has been asked for so many times....hasn't yet bubbled up in the developers new feature queue?
Other than this monumental gripe, I am very impressed with TrueNAS core, and continue to be as I uncover additional features.
Tx,
Melodious
TrueNAS Newbie.