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CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:06 pm
by mrupp
We have CrossDOS für FAT32 support, it's missing ExFAT support right now. The limitations of FAT32 (mainly the max. 4 GB file size) become more and more annoying, so for my external drives I'm using NTFS or ExFAT. Of course, NTFS support would be nice as well, and there are attempts on that, afaik. But ExFAT support would be a good thing as it's getting more and more popular.
Wikipedia on ExFAT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
And then, a native version of CrossMAC would also be a good idea. Especially as there already is a 68k version, this might not seem an impossible thing, one would think.
CrossMAC in Aminet:
http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/CrossMAC_Demo
What do you think?
Greetings
Michael
Re: CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:02 pm
by Amigo1
I second your opinion about ExFAT and think it would be nice to have and useful.
About NTFS support, AFAIK there is need to pay royalities to MS.
About CrossMac, it is not free software either I suppose..and speaking just for myself, I am not sure there is a need for it nowadays.
Re: CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:06 pm
by chris
Amigo1 wrote:About NTFS support, AFAIK there is need to pay royalities to MS.
Same for ExFAT.
I'd rather see F2FS support. It's new, but it is specifically designed for flash drives and is open source. I'd be surprised if Windows support didn't turn up, and I'd quite happily use it on all my flash drives.
Re: CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 7:47 pm
by Amigo1
chris wrote:Amigo1 wrote:About NTFS support, AFAIK there is need to pay royalities to MS.
Same for ExFAT.
I'd rather see F2FS support. It's new, but it is specifically designed for flash drives and is open source. I'd be surprised if Windows support didn't turn up, and I'd quite happily use it on all my flash drives.
didn't know about F2FS. I'll start using it for sure. thanks for telling..
Re: CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 1:27 pm
by salass00
mrupp wrote:We have CrossDOS für FAT32 support, it's missing ExFAT support right now. The limitations of FAT32 (mainly the max. 4 GB file size) become more and more annoying, so for my external drives I'm using NTFS or ExFAT. Of course, NTFS support would be nice as well, and there are attempts on that, afaik. But ExFAT support would be a good thing as it's getting more and more popular.
Wikipedia on ExFAT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
This is the first time I ever hear or read of of ExFAT so it can't be all that popular? As regards to NTFS suffice to say that there is work being done in that direction
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Re: CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:00 pm
by ZeroG
@salass00:
SDXC and Memory Sticks XC cards are pre-formatted with exFAT file system, it will pop up sooner or later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDXC#SDXC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Sti ... y_Stick_XC
Re: CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:09 pm
by chris
ZeroG wrote:SDXC and Memory Sticks XC cards
Very few people use those these days.
Re: CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 10:49 am
by kicko
Still it would be nice to be able to read more filesystems then less.
Re: CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 1:22 pm
by kas1e
@Kicko
The same as will be good to have more developers than less, who will do that new code
But as all limited resources, better to choice most popular one, and in our case its 100% NTFS.
Re: CrossMAC and ExFAT
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:24 pm
by ssolie
kas1e wrote:@Kicko
The same as will be good to have more developers than less, who will do that new code
But as all limited resources, better to choice most popular one, and in our case its 100% NTFS.
I agree on that.
Once we have a public release of the file system API, SDK, testing tools, etc. it is my hope 3rd party developers will be interested in doing the work involved versus relying on the dev team alone. Amiga file systems have been a convoluted mystery for far too long and I want to try and end that.