Linux on the Mac — state of the union [LWN.net]

Linux on the Mac — state of the union

Posted Dec 10, 2016 9:14 UTC (Sat) by aorth (subscriber, #55260)
In reply to: Linux on the Mac — state of the union by imgx64
Parent article: Linux on the Mac — state of the union

In the last few years exFAT has been a good choice too.

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Linux on the Mac — state of the union

Posted Dec 10, 2016 10:22 UTC (Sat) by jem (subscriber, #24231) [Link] (1 responses)

> In the last few years exFAT has been a good choice too.

Choice, yes. Good? No. There is no mainline kernel implementation of exFAT. There is a FUSE implementation, and maybe some non-mainline in-kernel implementations.

The reason exFAT is a second class citizen on Linux is that Microsoft asserts many patents on exFAT, and implementing support for it requires a license from Microsoft.

UDF also supports POSIX file system permissions.

Linux on the Mac — state of the union

Posted Dec 10, 2016 10:59 UTC (Sat) by johannbg (guest, #65743) [Link]

s/maybe/are/ some non-mainline in-kernel implementations like [1].

1. https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse