Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/13] add the latest exfat driver | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Date | Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:57:07 -0600 |
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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://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.
-Eric
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