[Mageia-dev] exfat support in Mga2

Fri Feb 3 17:02:46 CET 2012

On 03.02.2012 16:52, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> Le vendredi 03 février 2012 à 16:23 +0100, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
+>> Hello!
+>>
+>> What do you think of support exfat in Mga2?
+>> There are two packages (already in Debian, Fedora, partly Mandriva)
+>> exfat-fuse and exfat-utils both iinm shall land in tainted.
+> Why ?
+>
+> if it went to Fedora, it should be good enough for core/
+> ( now I do not see it on F16, so maybe you mean something else than "in
+> Fedora repository" when you mean "in Fedora" ).
+>
+ From Wikipedia:
+"An experimental, open source Linux kernel module that supports the 
+reading of exFAT files is currently under development.[13] It cannot 
+become an official part of Linux due to the patent encumbered status of 
+the exFAT filesystem. A FUSE-based full-featured implementation is 
+currently in beta status."
+
+
+The packages are in Russian Fedora Free for F15/F16/Rawhide, according 
+to http://packages.debian.org/sid/exfat-utils
+
+For Debian it's probalby in the main repository (but I'm unsure)
+http://packages.debian.org/sid/exfat-fuse
+http://packages.debian.org/sid/exfat-utils
+
+Though the software is licensed under GPLv3+.
+