Why is exFat the default filesystem in Veracrypt instead of NTFS?

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Why is exFat the default filesystem in Veracrypt instead of NTFS?

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Poseidon

Created: 2020-03-07

Updated: 2020-03-07

Poseidon - 2020-03-07

exFat and NTFS are both propietary Microsoft filesystems, most Linux distributions can read NTFS out of the box whereas for exFat you have to install a package, and NTFS has journaling which improves data integrity and exFat hasn´t got that.

NTFS seems a far better file system than exFat, is there any reason I am missing here of why exFat is the default filesystem in Veracrypt??

Last edit: Poseidon 2020-03-07

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Adrian Kentleton - 2020-03-07

It's probably because MAC OS X (from 10.6.5 on) can also handle it.

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Last edit: Adrian Kentleton 2020-03-07

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