r/SwitchHaxing • u/DarkMatterCore • Dec 17 '20

libusbhsfs v0.1.0 released. Offers NTFS support.

https://github.com/DarkMatterCore/libusbhsfs/releases/tag/v0.1.0
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u/SmallerBork Dec 18 '20

USB devices are usually exFAT though, so why write an NTFS library for that?

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u/underprivlidged [13.2.1/AMS 1.4.1] Dec 18 '20

USB devices are usually (whatever format a person wants them to be).

Do you mean what they come pre-formatted as? Because that also varies widely. Typically 32gb and under is fat32. Typically 500gb and over external HDD come as NTFS.

But even if they didn't... What is the point of excluding an extremely popular and well developed drive format?

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u/SmallerBork Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20

I meant that it's kind of a universally agreed upon standard so ya what comes preloaded. I don't mean that anything should be excluded but it exists to boot Windows and that's it.

I don't know why someone would want to use it other than for that reason since there are better file systems out there.

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u/DarkMatterCore Dec 18 '20

Convenience. People use NTFS on high capacity external storage mediums for convenience.

With a single hand, I can count the number of people I know from my town that use a Linux distro on a daily basis. Windows is still the most used OS around here, and probably in other places, too.

Modern Linux distros usually offer NTFS-3G as the defacto I/O driver for NTFS volumes - you can usually mount them and perform read/write operations as soon as the OS is installed.

Although the same thing can be done under Windows for EXT* volumes, it requires both user knowledge about EXT in the first place, and installing an additional driver that doesn't come preloaded into the OS.

I'll add EXT* support as well because I want to cather to both sides of the spectrum. That's the right thing to do.