Linux needs exFAT support
Bug #315710 reported by
David Grossberg
This bug affects 58 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The SD Association announced in 2009 a new standard for high-capacity SD memory cards: SDXC - and the file system for this standard will be Microsoft's exFAT. Further, recent MS Windows versions are defaulting to exFAT when formatting removable drives. Linux (either the kernel or via FUSE) therefore needs to support this file system before it becomes common for portable devices and other uses.
(Yes, this is an upstream feature request, but I'm a Kubuntu user and this is where I can track progress for my own distro)
Changed in linux: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
description: | updated |
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This is really true, exFAT is becoming more and more popular since it is a very nice option for replacing FAT. Having support for this on linux would be great.