Messages in this thread | | | From | "Namjae Jeon" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 00/13] add the latest exfat driver | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:41:43 +0900 |
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> On 11/13/19 3:55 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:00:23 -0600, Eric Sandeen said: > >> On 11/13/19 2:17 AM, Namjae Jeon wrote: > >>> This adds the latest Samsung exfat driver to fs/exfat. This is an > >>> implementation of the Microsoft exFAT specification. Previous versions > >>> of this shipped with millions of Android phones, an a random previous > >>> snaphot has been merged in drivers/staging/. > >>> > >>> Compared to the sdfat driver shipped on the phones the following changes > >>> have been made: > >>> > >>> - the support for vfat has been removed as that is already supported > >>> by fs/fat > >>> - driver has been renamed to exfat > >>> - the code has been refactored and clean up to fully integrate into > >>> the upstream Linux version and follow the Linux coding style > >>> - metadata operations like create, lookup and readdir have been further > >>> optimized > >>> - various major and minor bugs have been fixed > >>> > >>> We plan to treat this version as the future upstream for the code base > >>> once merged, and all new features and bug fixes will go upstream first. > >> > >> Apologies if I should know this already, but where are the userspace > tools > >> for exfat located? > > > > The upstream for that is https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=c58c1a81- > 98101be1-c58d91ce-0cc47a31307c- > f7e416d4f44c26c5&u=https://github.com/relan/exfat > > > > On Fedora, they're available in the rpmfusion RPM 'exfat-utils', not sure > where > > Ubuntu or other distros put it. > > Thanks, I wasn't sure if that was the "official" repo at this point. I am preparing exfat-tools project and will share it here. > > -Eric
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