Snow Leopard 10.6.5 began to support exFAT

One of the updates to the Snow Leopard brought a little-mentioned innovation - the system began to support the exFAT file system.
What does this give in practical application?

As a rule, for the exchange of information between Mac and Win computers it is necessary to break a disk or flash drive either under FAT32 (with consequences in the form of a file size limit of 4 gigabytes) or under NTFS. Here, too, there is little pleasant - periodically both drivers from third-party manufacturers and embedded into the system unpleasantly glitch.

The innovation in the form of exFAT gives a good opportunity to solve these problems without serious consequences - exFAT support is available in Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and 3, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7.

Opportunities:

• The theoretical limit on file size is 2 ⁶⁴ bytes (16 ex-lib).
• Maximum cluster size increased to 2 ²⁵ bytes (32 MB)
• Improving the allocation of free space due to the introduction of a bit-card of free space, which can reduce disk fragmentation
  
• No limit on the number of files in one directory
• Access list support added
• Transaction support (optional, must be supported by the device)

As you can see the upper limits remove all questions in the near future. I did not imagine mebibyte and expibet in my head, but I am sure that “640 kilobytes of memory will be enough for everyone” :)
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Of course, questions remain about the fact that exFAT is a kind of commercial system, but in the context of private use these nuances can be, I think, neglected.