[ANNOUNCE] exfat-utils-1.0.1 initial version released

[ANNOUNCE] exfat-utils-1.0.1 initial version released

[Namjae Jeon]

The initial version(1.0.1) of exfat-utils is now available.
This is the official userspace utilities for exfat filesystem of
linux-kernel.

The major changes in this release:
  * mkfs.exfat: quick/full format support
  * mkfs.exfat: specify cluster size
  * mkfs.exfat: set volume label
  * fsck.exfat: consistency check support

The git tree is at:
      https://github.com/exfat-utils/exfat-utils

The tarballs can be found at
      https://github.com/exfat-utils/exfat-utils/releases/tag/1.0.1

Re: [ANNOUNCE] exfat-utils-1.0.1 initial version released

[Goldwyn Rodrigues]

Hi,

On 10:59 09/04, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> The initial version(1.0.1) of exfat-utils is now available.
> This is the official userspace utilities for exfat filesystem of
> linux-kernel.

For the sake of sanity of the distributions which already carry
exfat-utils based on fuse (https://github.com/relan/exfat), would it be
possible to either change the name of the project to say exfat-progs or
increase the version number to beyond 1.4?

exfat-progs is more in line with xfsprogs, btrfsprogs or e2fsprogs :)

-- 
Goldwyn

RE: [ANNOUNCE] exfat-utils-1.0.1 initial version released

[Namjae Jeon]

> Hi,
Hi Goldwyn,

> 
> On 10:59 09/04, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > The initial version(1.0.1) of exfat-utils is now available.
> > This is the official userspace utilities for exfat filesystem of
> > linux-kernel.
> 
> For the sake of sanity of the distributions which already carry exfat-
> utils based on fuse (https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=20c6da2a-7d5874b0-
> 20c75165-0cc47a336fae-
> 6943064efcd15854&q=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frelan%2Fexfat), would it
> be possible to either change the name of the project to say exfat-progs or
> increase the version number to beyond 1.4?
> 
> exfat-progs is more in line with xfsprogs, btrfsprogs or e2fsprogs :)
Oh, I see. I agree to rename to exfat-progs. I will work to release version
1.0.2 with that name.
Thank you for your opinion!
> 
> --
> Goldwyn

Re: [ANNOUNCE] exfat-utils-1.0.1 initial version released

[Sedat Dilek]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:15 AM Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> Hi Goldwyn,
>
> >
> > On 10:59 09/04, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> > > The initial version(1.0.1) of exfat-utils is now available.
> > > This is the official userspace utilities for exfat filesystem of
> > > linux-kernel.
> >
> > For the sake of sanity of the distributions which already carry exfat-
> > utils based on fuse (https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=20c6da2a-7d5874b0-
> > 20c75165-0cc47a336fae-
> > 6943064efcd15854&q=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Frelan%2Fexfat), would it
> > be possible to either change the name of the project to say exfat-progs or
> > increase the version number to beyond 1.4?
> >
> > exfat-progs is more in line with xfsprogs, btrfsprogs or e2fsprogs :)
> Oh, I see. I agree to rename to exfat-progs. I will work to release version
> 1.0.2 with that name.
> Thank you for your opinion!
>

Hi,

this Monday I started testing Linux v5.7-rc1 with CONFIG_EXFAT_FS=m
together with LLVM/Clang v10.

Here I am on Debian/testing AMD64 and wondered how I can do some testing.

In the Debian repositories I found exfat-utils 1.3.0-1.

So good to know this is the wrong user-space tools :-).

+1 for renaming to exfat-progs.

How does someone test EXFAT filesystem with Linux v5.7-rc1?
I know that xfs-progs ships tests also for EXT4 filesystem.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
- Sedat -