On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 5:59 PM Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 2023-11-21 15:55 GMT+09:00, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 04:55:18PM -0600, Seamus de Mora wrote: > >> I'd like to volunteer to add some information to the mount manual. > >> > >> I'm told that exFAT was added to the kernel about 4 years ago, but > >> last I checked, there was nothing about it in man mount. I feel this > >> could be addressed best by adding a sub-topic on exFAT under the topic > >> `FILESYSTEM-SPECIFIC MOUNT OPTIONS`. > >> > >> If my application is of interest, please let me know what steps I need > >> to take - or how to approach this task. > >> > > > > I'm adding from Alejandro's reply. > > > > You can start reading the source in fs/exfat in linux.git tree [1]. > > Then you can write the documentation for exfat in Documentation/exfat.rst > > (currently doesn't exist yet), at the same time of your manpage > > contribution. > > > > Cc'ing exfat maintainers for better treatment. > Thanks Bagas for forwarding this to us! > > Hi Seamus, > > Some of mount options are same with fatfs's ones. You can refer the > descriptions of fatfs > documentation(Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst). > If you have any questions about other options or documentation for > exfat, please give an email me. > > Thanks! > > > > Thanks. > > > > [1]: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/fs/exfat Thanks for the offer Namjae; I'm sure I'll take you up on that when I get ready to actually produce something. For now, I am reading and trying to get myself up to speed to tackle this. So far, the going has been a bit slow as I have a couple of commitments I need to finish. Rgds, ~S
