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Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status

Posted by Soulskill on from the progress-bar-finished dept.

Titus Andronicus writes "fuse-exfat, a GPLv3 implementation of the exFAT file system for Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X, has reached 1.0 status, according to an announcement from Andrew Nayenko, the primary developer. exFAT is a file system designed for sneaker-netting terabyte-scale files and groups of files on flash drives and memory cards between and among Windows, OS X, and consumer electronics devices. It was introduced by Microsoft in late 2006. Will fuse-exfat cut into Microsoft's juicy exFAT licensing revenue? Will Microsoft litigate fuse-exfat's developers and users into patent oblivion? Will there be a DKMS dynamic kernel module version of the software, similar to the ZFS on Linux project? All that remains to be seen. ReadWrite, The H, and Phoronix cover the story."

6 of 151 comments (clear)

  1. Re:For once it's true. by TheReaperD · · Score: 1, Insightful

    One word: Windows

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  2. Re:The wrong way around by SuricouRaven · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Standardise all you want. You should know what'll happen. Windows will not support it out the box, and if Windows doesn't support it, that filesystem is effectively dead. Who is going to want a USB stick formatted so it won't work on the operating system running on upwards of ninety percent of desktops and laptops?

  3. DKMS? by r1348 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As the name clearly states, this is a FUSE implementation of exFAT, i.e. userspace. In which case DKMS is as useful as a fork for soup.

    So not only we get the news two days after Phoronix [1], but the poster has no idea on what he's talking about.

    [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3OTQ

  4. Re:This doesn't make sense to me by steeviant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ahh sneakernet... god I love wifi.

    Wifi is famously good when transferring terabyte sized files like exFAT is intended for.

  5. Re:The wrong way around by MightyMartian · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can call FAT and its variants a lot of things, but "modern" isn't one of them.

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  6. Re:The wrong way around by billyswong · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about when you are not admin? Installing software, especially drivers, are not always appropriate or even possible.