Stöd för filsystemet exFAT kommer till Linux. För närvarande krävs paketet exfat-fuse, men snart kommer det att finnas i kärnan.

Microsoft, som har utvecklat exFAT, gör nu också exFAT-specifikationen tillgänglig.

exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!

This PPA Lets You Try an ‘exfat’ Kernel Module Based on Samsung Code (OMG)

Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~arter97/+archive ... xfat-linux

Linux 5.4 har släppts, med exFAT-stöd.

Kernel Newbies: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.4#Dri ... aging_area

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... 682d905b5d

Linux’s exFAT Driver Looking To Still Be Replaced By A Newer Driver From Samsung (Phoronix)

Samsung’s Better exFAT Driver Gets Revised Ahead Of Mainline Linux Integration (Phoronix)

The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Is Set To Land With Linux 5.7 (Phoronix)

The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it (Ars Technica)

The New Microsoft exFAT File-System Driver Has Landed In Linux 5.7 (Phoronix)

Samsung Releases exFAT-Utils To Format File-System, Fsck (Phoronix)

Samsung Sends In Improvements To The exFAT File-System Driver For Linux 5.8 (Phoronix)

Jag lånar tråden för att skriva om ett annat Microsoft-filsystem, NTFS, som Linux kanske kommer att få bättre stöd för.

Paragon Sends Out Updated NTFS Driver They Want To Mainline For The Linux Kernel (Phoronix)

exFAT File-System Performance On Linux 5.9 (Phoronix)

If taking the geometric mean for all of the storage tests for this article, the mainline exFAT kernel driver on Linux 5.9 offers 43% higher performance over the exFAT FUSE driver.