Sony Contributes ~73%+ Performance Improvement For exFAT Linux Driver

[theriddick]

I'm surprised Sony hasn't yet released a Store app like MS Live Games Service whatever it is for Windows AND Linux. Keeping everything on their exclusive and hard to get PS(5) consoles is going to really hurt them in the long run.

[mdedetrich]

It is compatible with windows and that's about it. It may be the least bad option out of fat32 ntfs and exfat.

Thats downplaying it a bit, exFat is compatible for both reads and writes with all major OS's (i.e. Windows, MacOSX, Linux) without need to installing custom drivers for different filesystems. This made exFat the best FS for basic USB thumb/hard drive storage. The other "options" have the following issues

* ntfs: Only Windows has been able to write to NTFS by default. MacOS mounts it in read only mode and although there is an NTFS driver for fuse for Linux its not the same as having it already in the kernel (although this will change with the new in kernel NTFS driver)
* ext4: Forget about it for anything non Linux
* fat: Has limitations for file/partition size

so tl;dr is that if you have a thumdrive and you want it to be able to read/write on every common OS, exFat has been your choice.

[geearf]

That percentage figure is strangely inverted and not intuitive at all. I'd be saying it's four times faster!

4 times as fast or 3 times faster.

[erniv2]

Google/Android is starting an initiative for OEMs launching with Android 12(+), to use Generic Kernel Image (GKI). Getting that to all the phones out in the wild will be a multi-year process. But it will help a lot with fragmentation & easing the android update pain.

I read up about Android 12 when i was exited "yes does my xiaomi phone get the update" but it looks grim on the kernel front miui 12.5.5 uses linux 4.14 the beta used 4.19 but they roled back thats for Android 11.

Android 12 requires linux 5.4 kernel for oem and 5.10 for option roms, so it will take atleast 3-4 years until the goodies from 5.15 will hit the market leave alone 5.19 wich is still in linux next.

[rabcor]

Was a bit hyped but then i saw it was just exfat. Now some USBs might be faster when i remember to use exfat over ntfs on them

[hajj_3]

Are you sure you've never used it? Basically every SD / microSD, and USB flash drive has come formatted with this filesystem for ages. Unless you specifically go out of your way to reformat them, there's a good chance many people have used it and not even known. E.g. they pulled some new new SD card out of its package and put it in a digital camera over a decade ago.

pretty sure only required on 64GB+ sd/microsd cards

[Teggs]

Is this work because Sony uses exFAT in their products, or is Mr. Mo just doing everyone a solid?

[CochainComplex]

Book of Phoronix, Sony 5:19

In the beginning the surface was formless and empty.
A engineer said let there be many lights and fast lights.
And it was fast and it was good.

Even though micro$oft said there was a great love of Linux,
we did not see the blood spilt.

Yet from sony it was like a lost son gave much blood and
the Love of Linux flowed much.

Amen.

[castlefox]

I'm aware. My point is that the backporting won't be done by mainline, not that it won't reach phones in any way.

Gotcha. I was not aware of that.

[sinepgib]

Google/Android is starting an initiative for OEMs launching with Android 12(+), to use Generic Kernel Image (GKI). Getting all the phones out in the wilds will be a multi-year process. But it thought help a lot with fragmentation & easing the android update pain.

I'm aware. My point is that the backporting won't be done by mainline, not that it won't reach phones in any way.