#13 exFAT

[ProtoColD]

http://code.google.com/p/exfat/

[João Cardoso]

Further reading from LWN, Wikipedia , LinuxUser and Microsoft makes me think that to be on the safe side I won't do it, unless someone shows me the contrary:

As we all know, the GPL makes a simple pact between the coder and the user.
Anyone can take, modify, copy, share and redistribute the software and the
code, but must pass on the same rights to subsequent users of the software,
including any modifications to the code.
(...)
The drawback, in this instance, is that exFAT is owned by Microsoft, is a
proprietary fileformat, and has patent issues. The exFAT driver code can only
be deployed by manufacturers or distributions that have obtained a licence
from Microsoft.

[João Cardoso]

It looks like Debian has it, so it must be safe, reopening.
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/exfat-fuse

And a non-fuse implementation released by Sansung is GPL-v2:
http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung

http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=exfat

[yu_mor]

Hi! Are there any news?
Sometimes I need to copy media files from my wife's Kingston DataTraveler Bolt Duo via USB. It's like travel storage extender for iphone. It supports only FAT and exFAT to use in Bolt iphone app. But I can't use FAT because of large videos.

[João Cardoso]

Yes, read this

I will compile and try the exfat-fuse implementation. It will be slow, but's better than nothing.
The kernel-based (and faster) implementation is beyond our reach, it has not been backported to kernel 4.4. Might be that exfact-linux works with kernel 4.14.

[João Cardoso]

Please try the attached pkgs.
exfat-linux is a kernel module, exfatprogs contains the fsck program.
No automounting will be be available, you will have to manually mount

mkdir /mnt/sdxx
modprobe exfat
mount -t exfat /dev/sdxx /mnt/sdxx

I added the e2fsprogs package with support for exfat, automounting will be available if you install all three packages from the command line.

There is yet no support for the DNS-327L.

Please report back your experience.