[cerved]

that depends, exFAT lacks permissions and symlinks. I think FreeBSD has NTFS support but lacks exFAT

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> that depends, exFAT lacks permissions and symlinks.

The lack of permissions is why it works as a portable file system. If you've ever tried to use, say, ext for this it becomes clear why nobody does that.

[boring_twenties]

You can just pass -o uid=X,gid=Y when mounting ext2 to solve this.