On Saturday, 20 March 2021 17:45:17 GMT Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:27:23 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > >>> Looking at the github readme, it wold appear that exfat-progs is for > >>> use with the new in-kernel exfat fs, while exfat-utils is a companion > >>> to the older FUSE implementation of exfat. > >> > >> Maybe I need more caffeine, but I can't see the /direct/ relationship > >> between /user/ /space/ utilities and /kernel/ /space/ support for the > >> same file system. > >> Is there something that I'm missing that would prevent exfat-progs > >> (user space) with FUSE exFAT (kernel space) -or- exfat-utils (user > >> space) with in-kernel exFAT (kernel space)? > > > > I'm not saying there is a direct relationship, but the exfat-progs readme > > states it is for use with the new in-kernel fs while exfat-utils is from > > the same devs as the FUSE module. > > If it helps any, the newer one requires a 5.7 or higher kernel. It > sounds to me like one is old school while the newer one is more *nifty* > with *new ways* of doing things. Your choice which is better. I'd have > to have a kernel upgrade before I could switch. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Well, I'm on 5.4.97-gentoo kernel and have removed the sys-fs/fuse-exfat and sys-fs/exfat-utils packages. I have emerged sys-fs/exfatprogs and have no problem using exfatlabel and dump.exfat to access an exfat fs on a USB stick. All I can confirm is ... it works here and I haven't noticed a difference with the exfat-utils package. :-)
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