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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] exfat support in Mga2</H1>
    <B>andre999</B> 
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<PRE>Michael Scherer a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> Le vendredi 03 f&#233;vrier 2012 &#224; 16:23 +0100, Kamil Rytarowski a &#233;crit :
</I>&gt;<i>    
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hello!
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> What do you think of support exfat in Mga2?
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> There are two packages (already in Debian, Fedora, partly Mandriva)
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> exfat-fuse and exfat-utils both iinm shall land in tainted.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>      
</I>&gt;<i> Why ?
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</I>&gt;<i> if it went to Fedora, it should be good enough for core/
</I>&gt;<i> ( now I do not see it on F16, so maybe you mean something else than &quot;in
</I>&gt;<i> Fedora repository&quot; when you mean &quot;in Fedora&quot; ).
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</I>The wikipedia page links to <A HREF="https://code.google.com/p/exfat/">https://code.google.com/p/exfat/</A>
which gives links for various distros which have these exfat packages.  
(7 in all)
The link for &quot;fedora&quot; is <A HREF="http://code.google.com/p/exfat/downloads/list,">http://code.google.com/p/exfat/downloads/list,</A> 
which is evidently not on Fedora itself.
For debian it is to <A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/exfat-fuse">http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/exfat-fuse</A>
For mandriva it just says &quot;Cooker&quot; (no link).

The wikipedia link 
<A HREF="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Licenses-Windows-7-s-exFAT-Flash-File-Format-129512.shtml">http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Licenses-Windows-7-s-exFAT-Flash-File-Format-129512.shtml</A>
says that Microsoft licenses the format to larger companies for 300000$, 
and a search from there leads to 
&quot;<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/intellectualproperty/iplicensing/programs/exfatfilesystem.aspx">http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/intellectualproperty/iplicensing/programs/exfatfilesystem.aspx</A>&quot;
So it does have to be in &quot;tainted&quot;.  (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 (&gt;=64G).  For other contexts, ext4 (or 
even NTFS) would be a better choice,

-- 
Andr&#233;

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