[Mageia-dev] exfat support in Mga2

Sat Feb 4 00:38:15 CET 2012

Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> 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" ).
+>
+>    
+The wikipedia page links to https://code.google.com/p/exfat/
+which gives links for various distros which have these exfat packages.  
+(7 in all)
+The link for "fedora" is http://code.google.com/p/exfat/downloads/list, 
+which is evidently not on Fedora itself.
+For debian it is to http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/exfat-fuse
+For mandriva it just says "Cooker" (no link).
+
+The wikipedia link 
+http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Licenses-Windows-7-s-exFAT-Flash-File-Format-129512.shtml
+says that Microsoft licenses the format to larger companies for 300000$, 
+and a search from there leads to 
+"http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/intellectualproperty/iplicensing/programs/exfatfilesystem.aspx"
+So it does have to be in "tainted".  (Unless, of course Microsoft 
+decides to give us special permission :-) )
+
+The filesystem only seems to be useful for usb keys 64G or bigger, since 
+the format is essentially a FAT64 with minor innovations.  It is the 
+default format for SDXC cards (>=64G).  For other contexts, ext4 (or 
+even NTFS) would be a better choice,
+
+-- 
+André
+
+