On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:56:31 +0200, Pali Roh�said: > I'm not really sure if this exfat implementation is fully suitable for > mainline linux kernel. > > In my opinion, proper way should be to implement exFAT support into > existing fs/fat/ code instead of replacing whole vfat/msdosfs by this > new (now staging) fat implementation. > In linux kernel we really do not need two different implementation of > VFAT32. This patch however does have one major advantage over "patch vfat to support exfat" - which is that the patch exists. If somebody comes forward with an actual "extend vfat to do exfat" patch, we should at that point have a discussion about relative merits....
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