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exFAT
Пока компания не планирует открывать исходный код к exFAT, однако своими действиями она позволит использовать эту файловую систему в Linux. В Рэдмонде планируют добавить поддержку exFAT в ядро ОС, а поддержка появится в будущей ревизии Open Invention Network Linux System Definition.
Microsoft wants Linux to get exFAT
To facilitate the development of “conformant, interoperable implementations
Software King of the World Microsoft said it is supporting the addition of its exFAT file system to the Linux kernel. To facilitate the development of “conformant, interoperable implementations”.
The outfit has published the exFAT technical specification on Microsoft Docs.
For those who came in late, Vole introduced exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) in November 2006. It’s used in Windows and in many types of storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives. As file sizes have grown for media content exFAT has become rather important.
But exFAT is proprietary, and Microsoft owns patents on several elements of its design. But Microsoft has been open-sourcing rather a lot lately. It took .NET cross-platform to Mac and Linux in November 2014. The company open-sourced PowerShell and extended it to Linux in August 2016. Microsoft even brought Visual Studio Code to Linux as a Snap in April 2019. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2009, and WSL 2 is already in the works.
While Microsoft isn’t open-sourcing exFAT it is making sure anyone building with Linux can use it.
A spokesVole said that Microsoft was supporting the addition the exFAT file system to the Linux kernel and the eventual inclusion of a Linux kernel with exFAT support in a future revision of the Open Invention Network’s Linux System Definition.
Источники:
https://nvworld.ru/news/microsoft-to-add-exfat-in-linux/
https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/49297-microsoft-wants-linux-to-get-exfat |
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