Re: exFat (FAT64) on Linux

2009-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/13/2009 05:11 PM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Anyway, what's the consensus? Is exFat going to be a Good Thing? Doesn't matter. Lots of Bad Things need to be supported, just because they are ubiquitous. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear

Re: exFat (FAT64) on Linux

2009-02-13 Thread Dennis Kramer
Hmm, reading the wiki thanks to the link you've provided I stumbled upon: ..Linux users can read exFAT using the free linux kernel patch. http://userweb.kernel.org/~hirofumi/exfat/exfat.tar.gz On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Mark Allums wrote: Now that exFat FS is being used in Vista SP1 and now XP

Re: exFat (FAT64) on Linux

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 13 2009, Dennis Kramer wrote: ..Linux users can read exFAT using the free linux kernel patch. http://userweb.kernel.org/~hirofumi/exfat/exfat.tar.gz can someone explain what to do with these?? http://userweb.kernel.org/~hirofumi/exfat/exfat.tar.gz exfat/series is

Re: exFat (FAT64) on Linux

2009-02-13 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
On Friday 13 February 2009 16:21:38 Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri February 13 2009, Dennis Kramer wrote: ..Linux users can read exFAT using the free linux kernel patch. http://userweb.kernel.org/~hirofumi/exfat/exfat.tar.gz can someone explain what to do with these??

Re: exFat (FAT64) on Linux

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Allums
Dennis Kramer wrote: Hmm, reading the wiki thanks to the link you've provided I stumbled upon: ..Linux users can read exFAT using the free linux kernel patch. http://userweb.kernel.org/~hirofumi/exfat/exfat.tar.gz Are we to trust this? Going to a site reference provided (a newsgroup) by a

exFat (FAT64) on Linux

2009-02-12 Thread Mark Allums
Now that exFat FS is being used in Vista SP1 and now XP (with a hotfix) as well as Windows Embedded CE 6.0, when can we expect it in Debian? Are there any implementations (even merely read-only) yet? The license is probably unclear; FAT has patents, but we use FAT32/vfat anyway. The point