I partially do the variant two separate DBs for every system with the same data too, however I hardly ever boot into windows. I didn’t get much conflicts (it’s definitely inefficient though), but bear in mind I might just not have gotten them because of little use on windows. Since I started needing to boot into windows more, I reactivated my old laptop to use with windows, because I am too lazy to reboot. I finally need to get around trying to boot the windows partition in linux through kvm xD
Single db actually sounds very interesting, I just never considered that out of an abundance of caution (and mistrust for anything windows). Is there any concrete reason to believe ntfs-3g and ntfs on windows would see different timestamps?
And ntfs-3g works very well for me, I don’t see any reason to use exfat for me. E.g. it has no journaling or similar to help recover from crashes, and maybe other shortcomings stemming from it’s main purpose (sd cards/flash/…). Am I missing something on those and/or are there other benefits besides being in kernel? @bt90