HFS+ or exFAT for external media hdd?

Hi! I have searched the forum but I have not found an answer to this specific question.

I am a mac user mainly, and I have my rasp pi 2 connected to an external hdd on FAT32 (storage for media). I need to put files larger than 4GB and, well, it’s FAT32.

Should I re-format with HFS+ (no journaling) or exFAT? (considering that journaling is not supported)
1-Reliability (are they similar on the rpi? or will they just corrupt data?)
2-Performance (are any of them slow or slower than FAT32 on rPi?)
3-Compatibility with OSMC
4-Versus FAT32 (I could always just create a smaller exFAT partition for files >4GB and leave the main partition as FAT32)

The reason for this question is that if HFS+ (no journaling) and exFAT are similar in reliability, performance and compatibility with OSMC, exFAT would allow me to connect to other OS’s like on a samsung HDTV, but if these are inferior on exFAT, I would choose HFS+.

Use exFAT. HFS+ is problematic on Linux, and usually mounts RO. This will cause problems.

Regarding reliability: don’t pull the plug repeatedly and use a good PSU and you’ll be fine

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