Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:28:34PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
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> I went with vfat, but I'd like to resolve the question of exfat if
> possible, out of curiosity.
I was curious too, so I dropped the thing into my favourite search
engine (no, it's _not_ Google).
This is, in a nutshell, what I came out with:
- vfat is an extension of FAT. It introduces long file names (with
an incredible backward-compatible trick which... oh, well).
- fat32 is an extension of vfat, with bigger block pointers (i.e.
with a bigger address space: huge floppies, at last :)
- exfat is a patent encumbered thing by Microsoft (probably to
reaffirm its loosening grip on its sheeple), extending something
(probably fat32). There are FUSE implementations for Linux, and
also a kernel module, which can't be distributed jointly due to
above patent nonsense. I'd stay as clear of this one as possible.
Note that all this is just the result of a cursory search. Feel free
to refine :-)
regards
- -- t
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