Support for the new Microsoft file system exFAT in Linux

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Support for the new Microsoft file system exFAT in Linux

Microsoft's new file system exFAT was introduced in Windows Vista SP1. last week, Windows XP update was supported. ExFAT is used for mobile devices, such as large-capacity USB flash disks. ExFAT breaks through the previously FAT32 file size and partition restrictions, and other improvements. ExFAT is private, and the Linux kernel does not support reading and writing exFAT, but the read-only patch in Linux has already appeared.

Although Microsoft has not released the exFAT technical specifications, a developer has compiled related patches by performing reverse engineering on Windows Vista images.

In Linux, exFAT is far from perfect and cannot be written. But this is just the beginning. Of course, if you do not have an exFAT media, you can use other file systems such as EXT4, Tux3, and Btrfs on high-capacity media.

Patch: http://userweb.kernel.org /~ Hirofumi/exfat/exfat.tar.gz