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