Re: exFAT in NetBSD?

To: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: exFAT in NetBSD?
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 03:10:46 +0000

> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 03:03:14AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Is there any support in NetBSD, either base system or pkgsrc, for reading and possibly writing to exFAT file system.

> Not that I'm aware of.  You don't want to be using ExFAT anyway.

>       Jonathan Kollasch

I don't have ExFAT anywhere but read that it is used by SD cards > 32 GB for mobile devices.

I read the Wikipedia article on ExFAT, and see that Microsoft patents prevent full open-source support of ExFAT.

Tom

References:
- exFAT in NetBSD?
  - From: Thomas Mueller
- Re: exFAT in NetBSD?
  - From: Benedek Gergely
- Re: exFAT in NetBSD?
  - From: Jonathan A. Kollasch

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