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This is what is the matter with exFAT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Restrictive_licensing_and_software_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Restr

by djmdjm 12y ago

This is what is the matter with exFAT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Restrictive_licensing_and_software_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Restrictive_licensing_an... That's part of the answer to the OP's question. I thought that ext2 might have caught on, but I guess vendors were scared off by the GPL and (later, when BSD licensed implementations became available) the lack of support on Windows.

Rafert 12y ago
If you're being practical, the FUSE driver is just a PPA away on Ubuntu and works fine in my experience. I've switched over all my external media to exFAT, including my external hard drive with virtual BD-ROM functionality.
mkj 12y ago
Interesting, the patent http://www.google.com/patents/US8583708 http://www.google.com/patents/US8583708 sounds like SSL certificate "Critical Extensions" but applied to filesystems.