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Linux Support For Microsoft's exFAT File-System

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Introduced in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and then last week as a Windows XP update was exFAT. exFAT, or the Extended File Allocation Table, is Microsoft's new file-system for use on mobile devices like large USB flash drives. exFAT addresses the file-size and partition size limitations of Microsoft's FAT32 file-system and brings other improvements to the table as well, albeit it's proprietary. No read or write support for exFAT has yet to enter the mainline Linux kernel, but a set of read-only patches have emerged.

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Comments (3)

r_a_trip ·
Typical MS M.O. Use old technology. Extend it way past its useful lifespan. Keep the extension secret in the hope of hampering competitors. Fleece the customer for the umpteenth time with software that is bit rotten, unreliable and ancient, but sold at high prices.
mortenalver ·
Didn't they do almost the same thing with CD formats in Vista? I seem to remember an article about the default file system for burning files to CD in Vista, which was of course incompatible with anything but Vista...
techiem2 ·
[quote]Didn't they do almost the same thing with CD formats in Vista? I seem to remember an article about the default file system for burning files to CD in Vista, which was of course incompatible with anything but Vista...[quote]

hmm...that would explain why I couldn't read the CD burned on my bro's laptop the other day....

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