Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status 151
Titus Andronicus writes "fuse-exfat, a GPLv3 implementation of the exFAT file system for Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X, has reached 1.0 status, according to an announcement from Andrew Nayenko, the primary developer. exFAT is a file system designed for sneaker-netting terabyte-scale files and groups of files on flash drives and memory cards between and among Windows, OS X, and consumer electronics devices. It was introduced by Microsoft in late 2006. Will fuse-exfat cut into Microsoft's juicy exFAT licensing revenue? Will Microsoft litigate fuse-exfat's developers and users into patent oblivion? Will there be a DKMS dynamic kernel module version of the software, similar to the ZFS on Linux project? All that remains to be seen. ReadWrite, The H, and Phoronix cover the story."
exFAT is already on OS X (Score:5, Informative)
As far as I know it's part of OS X since Snow Leopard. But I could totally use the Linux support.
Re:This doesn't make sense to me (Score:5, Informative)
You do know what a "Sneaker Net" is dont you ? I guess not. It is using media such as SD Card or USB stick or hard drive to move files from one location to another by walking ie on your feet that are wearing sneakers, also very similar to using a "V8" net as in "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a V8 station wagon loaded with tapes / drives hurtling across the country"
Re:They won't sue yet. (Score:5, Informative)
Based on their previous actions, they will allow the use of this project in distros but will sue any commercial implementation that uses it. So they haven't sued Ubuntu or Mint, but have sued TomTom.
Re:This doesn't make sense to me (Score:5, Informative)
Not that we're anywhere close to terabyte flash drives.
You sure about that?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/7/3847628/kingston-announces-1tb-flash-drive [theverge.com]
They're not cheap yet, but they're here.
Re:This doesn't make sense to me (Score:4, Informative)
Ahem. I believe Kingston demo'd one at CES this year, and you can buy a 512G flash drive today. Cheap? No, but I'll put money on being able to purchase a 1TB thumbdrive-style flash drive in 18 months, max.
I spent the last few days re-doing my home backup system. With an equal number of OSX and Linux devices, and no windows devices, the best option for a drive that could go back and forth with minimal custom/flaky driver installs -- but still handle files over 4gb was, of all things, NTFS. I was ... well, frankly, more pissed off about that fact than a normal person should be about disk formats.
Finally (and what I dug into this thread to say) is that Station Wagons have craptastic lag.