Hacking I'm really curious about the WBFS...

[Eric345]

intellect. why does some of the sites tells use not to use it..

 

[ether2802]

Mmmmmmm.... you should ask to that sites WHY, cause I'm using it on 1 partition of my 500GB HDD and the other is NTFS and I've had no problems at all...!!

 

[Blue-K]

Why? You have to ask those sites, not us. Imo, it's not for Noobs. I've seen many threads here that someone managed to format his WBFS-Partition and lost all his games (and was too stupid to use a Command-Line Tool to restore them), or don't know how to partition the drive, for example.

FAT32/NTFS may be easier for the Noobs to handle, and are supported by nearly all OS (FAT32 even with all Homebrew-Apps), that's the only reason for me.

 

[PsyBlade]

because WBFS offers no real advantage over FAT

FAT compared to WBFS
+its way easier to set up initially
+you can use the drive for other purposes without deciding on hard space limits beforehand
+works out of the box on about every OS from this decade (well ... this one might be a con for assholes)
-not all loaders support it (but the major ones)

edit:
the point is that many people dont want choice
eliminating almost redundant choices makes something much more appealing to them
even if they are provided with a default they prefer NOT to be given a choice
if you dont believe me see eg the discussions when linux gets support for an additional filesystems

 

[apoptygma]

Main reasons to not use it are that you can't run any repair tools on it, like windows scandisk or defrag or anything and you can't store anything *but* wii games on it, so no rom storage or cover-art or anything. Another is that you can't re-size WBFS partitions, so if you decide you want to change the size later it's a hassle.

 

[DunkrWunkah]

WBFS can be useful with a smaller drive. It cuts any possibility of cluttering, which makes you focus on the games.

 

[smf]

intellect. why does some of the sites tells use not to use it..

WBFS is a relic of a by-gone age.
FAT32 is currently the most convenient, everyone should use it unless you have a really good reason to use NTFS and put up with it's drawbacks.