On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:22:45 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > in a recent Heise article (in German) at > > > https://www.heise.de/news/SystemRescue-8-00-GnuPG-Schluessel-im-Notfall-einfach-ausdrucken-5078896.html?wt_mc=nl.red.ho.ho-nl-windows.2021-03-15.link.link > > about "SystemRescue" the author mentions among other things that the old > packet "exfat-utils" has been replaced with the more modern alternative > "exfatprogs". > > Gentoo provides both packages. Up to now I have installed "exfat-utils" > most probably due to some recommendation in the Gentoo Handbook. Can > anybody comment on the pros and cons of either package?
Looking at the github readme, it wold appear that exfat-progs is for use
with the new in-kernel exfat fs, while exfat-utils is a companion to the
older FUSE implementation of exfat.
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Neil Bothwick
WORM: (n.) acronym for Write Once, Read Mangled. Used to describe a
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