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An Open-Source exFAT Implementation Reaches v1.0
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The SD card standard organization should have done a mechanism of indicating a file system, describing what file system is on the card instead of having this nonsense.
This way we can have both:
- for older systems you can use older file systems with less code change
- for newer systems you can use newer file systems with better features, better adapted for the use case.
- makes the standard simpler and easier to implement for hardware makers
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostHum, gee, I wonder why nobody's ever thought of that before??? Truly so easy to circumvent all patent issues, all you need to do is build a simple system capable of downloading and installing something from the interwebz rather than shipping it pre-installed, then you can trade around all kinds of stuff, like wondoze, osx, free movies, free music, and free pr0n.
Duh... sorry, my friend, that's not how it works.
Distribution is distribution is distribution. It makes no difference if you pre-install it, supply physical media, or have people download it from the interwebz. Its still in violation of copyright/patent/etc.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostDistribution is distribution is distribution. It makes no difference if you pre-install it, supply physical media, or have people download it from the interwebz. Its still in violation of copyright/patent/etc.Last edited by archibald; 21 January 2013, 07:21 PM. Reason: added parentheses and the verb 'compiled'
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Originally posted by newwen View PostTo avoid having to license it, you could always ship your product without the exFAT driver installed, and prompt the user to automatically download and install the GLPed driver whenever an exFAT formated device is connected. Requiring end user intervention to download the driver, I believe you can circumvent all patent issues.
Anyway, the good thing about this free driver is that if someone ships the product with the GPL exFAT code, he cannot negotiate with Microsoft any licensing that involves "per device licenses", even if he wanted to, as the GPL prohibits it. This means that the license could not cover the only the defendant but everyone in the free software community whose products are derived from that GPL.
Duh... sorry, my friend, that's not how it works.
Distribution is distribution is distribution. It makes no difference if you pre-install it, supply physical media, or have people download it from the interwebz. Its still in violation of copyright/patent/etc.
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Originally posted by chithanh View PostWhat it doesn't have is being allowed to install inside a partition. UDF spec requires that the filesystem occupies the entire storage medium. But in practice, the operating systems ignore this restriction.
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Originally posted by TheBlackCat View Postexfat and vfat are pretty much completely unrelated besides the name and the fact they were both developed by microsoft. The memory cards up to 32gb are required to use vfat, but above that (64gb+) they, and devices that read them, are only required to support exfat (they can have vfat, but there is no guarantee that devices will support it).
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostUDF has a "hard disk" mode, and it has features nearing what NTFS has.
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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostIf you had ever heard of UDF, you wouldn't say that.
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