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> You can still format the rest of the hard disk on another fs to dual boot, and you can still share drives with other systems in NTFS, xFAT, etc.

Until that other OS has support for the new proprietary filesystem, it won't be able to read it. Since Apple and Microsoft categorically refuse to implement any of the many featureful existing filesystems, one is stuck with archaic NTFS (with no file permissions) or FAT (with less than 4gb files) to keep data.



Why do you think there’s no file permissions in NTFS?

In NTFS, each file or directory can have arbitrary access control list specifying granted and denied permissions for users and groups.

Those lists are typically inherited down the directory hierarchy, but that inheritance can be stopped.


>Since Apple and Microsoft categorically refuse to implement any of the many featureful existing filesystems, one is stuck with archaic NTFS (with no file permissions) or FAT (with less than 4gb files) to keep data.

xFAT which I already mentioned is supported and doesn't have a 4GB limitation. You can have up to 128 pebibytes (which should be enough for everybody: that's ~144 petabytes).


> which should be enough for everybody

I've heard these words so often that they've lost any meaning to me. :)




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