Re: [PATCH 00/13] add the latest exfat driver

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Wed Nov 13 2019 - 16:00:27 EST


On 11/13/19 2:17 AM, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> This adds the latest Samsung exfat driver to fs/exfat. This is an
> implementation of the Microsoft exFAT specification. Previous versions
> of this shipped with millions of Android phones, an a random previous
> snaphot has been merged in drivers/staging/.
>
> Compared to the sdfat driver shipped on the phones the following changes
> have been made:
>
> - the support for vfat has been removed as that is already supported
> by fs/fat
> - driver has been renamed to exfat
> - the code has been refactored and clean up to fully integrate into
> the upstream Linux version and follow the Linux coding style
> - metadata operations like create, lookup and readdir have been further
> optimized
> - various major and minor bugs have been fixed
>
> We plan to treat this version as the future upstream for the code base
> once merged, and all new features and bug fixes will go upstream first.

Apologies if I should know this already, but where are the userspace tools
for exfat located?

Thanks,
-Eric