ExFAT support for the Scratch directory

[Alain G.]

Hello,
When trying to select an ExFAT partition for the Temporary and Scratch directories, NTlite says that it only accept an NTFS partition. I cannot see any valid reason for that, as the max file size of an ExFAT partition is huge. Also, as the ExFAT filesystem as a more lightweight "allocation table" than NTFS, this should speed up the job when dealing with a multitude of files like in NTlite. I personally have an ExFAT partition on my computer as a temporary workspace.

Regards.

 

[abbodi86]

It's DISM tool that require NTFS, not particulary NTLite

because it require sparse files (symlinks/hardlinks), which is not supported by exFAT
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/filesystem-functionality-comparison

 

[Alain G.]

Thank you for this clarification...

 

[nuhi]

Just a small correction, the Windows WIM mounting engine needs NTFS for the reasons stated, which NTLite uses directly; probably the same like DISM would, which is used for integrations only.