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Originally Posted by kraqh3d
Why is comma not allowed? Every file system I've worked with since 2000 supports comma (FAT32, NTFS, HFS+, ext2/3/4, UFS). NTFS even supports the characters Windows doesn't allow (:/?) when mounted on another OS. Just curious.
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You sort of answered your own question.
When you connect to a remote file system, the software handles some of the issues. (slashes wrong way, spaces, illegal characters...)
The native file system is still the same. A Calibre library can be copied (not converted) to another OS because Kovid and crew took pains to remove potential roadblocks.
BTW Windows still can't even
read my ETX3 partition (the only driver I found has trouble with too many inodes) on this computer. If it was simple, this would not be an issue