From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 15 14:35:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D349F1065672 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:35:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass9573@gmx.com) Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com (mailout-eu.gmx.com [213.165.64.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26CE48FC13 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:35:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2010 14:35:00 -0000 Received: from adsl-222.91.140.55.tellas.gr (EHLO [192.168.73.196]) [91.140.55.222] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu002) with SMTP; 15 Jan 2010 15:35:00 +0100 X-Authenticated: #46156728 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+LFZcNA0eLFeFI8Ka9kzmSgmTmOaqb8BnbuoI9G1 VeDuO3vQxI7QMg Message-ID: <4B507CDC.8060408@gmx.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:34:04 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100115081915.5ce46b6d@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20100115081915.5ce46b6d@scorpio.seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.64000000000000001 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD + exFAT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:35:02 -0000 On 1/15/2010 3:19 PM, Jerry wrote: > I know that this was asked approximately 1 year ago; however, I was > wondering if there had been any movement on it. Specifically, getting > FreeBSD to recognize the 'exFAT' format. It is becoming a very common > format for use on removable drives. It's patented and it probably comes with a multi-page aggrement and a price. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Licensing) says: Companies can integrate exFAT into a specific group of consumer devices, including cameras, camcorders and digital photo frames for a flat fee. Mobile phones, PCs and networks have a different volume pricing model. The above sound pretty much inappropriate for an open source operating system like FreeBSD. Nikos