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
