Technically exFAT probably isn’t that hard to implement. Probably. But
historically it was patent-protected by Microsoft, and getting licenses for it
was non-trivial and non-cheap. I had examined this quite some years ago when I
was looking at exFAT used in SDXC — its one of two reasons that our SDcard
infrastructure doesn’t support SDXC. (Of course, these days, almost nobody has
PCI-based SDHCI controllers… that world moved to USB many years ago. :-)
- Garrett
> On Jul 14, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Albert Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi,
> is there any way to support exFAT formatted usb disks?
> With all the mkv moving around usb disks, most of them are exFAT or NTFS.
> At least native exFAT would be nice: just plug it in and here it is, as for
> FAT disks.
>
> Gabriele
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> Older versions of fuse-exfat[1] will work with one of the FUSE
> implementations. (Current one is missing some platform-specific byteorder
> macro support). exFAT is covered by several patents which are a problem for
> anyone implementing support.
>
> -Albert
>
> [1]: https://code.google.com/p/exfat/ <https://code.google.com/p/exfat/>
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