FS#64707 - [exfat-utils] Consider disabling FUSE driver

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Laurențiu Nicola (lnicola) - Monday, 02 December 2019, 18:34 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Wednesday, 05 August 2020, 12:07 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Since Linux 5.4 there is a native exFAT driver available in the mainline kernel. Unfortunately, the FUSE driver in this package seems to take over the native one. Should the FUSE driver be disabled in this package, as in the exfat-utils-nofuse from AUR?
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Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Wednesday, 05 August 2020, 12:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  To use the kernel's driver, exfatprogs can be used in place of exfat-utils.
Comment by nl6720 (nl6720) - Monday, 02 December 2019, 18:42 GMT
Removing it entirely is not really an option, since linux-lts is an officially supported kernel and it's currently at version 4.19.86.
Maybe exfat-utils can be made into a split-package, separating the utilities and FUSE driver.
Comment by Laurențiu Nicola (lnicola) - Monday, 02 December 2019, 18:45 GMT
Good point. On the other hand, 5.4 is an LTS kernel, so linux-lts will presumably be upgraded rather sooner than later.
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Monday, 02 December 2019, 22:36 GMT
There was an upstream pull request to allow building without FUSE [1] but it was never merged.
You could pursue that while waiting for linux-lts to move to a 5.4+ base.

[1] https://github.com/relan/exfat/pull/11
Comment by Laurențiu Nicola (lnicola) - Monday, 30 March 2020, 10:27 GMT
There's an implementation of this here https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=exfat-utils-nofuse.
Comment by nl6720 (nl6720) - Saturday, 18 April 2020, 09:01 GMT
There are another exFAT userspace utilities made by Samsung ( https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs ). Version 1.0.1 of that project uses the name "exfat-utils", but in the next version (1.0.2) it will be named exfatprogs.
I think that these exfat-utils can be left alone as long as someone will package exfatprogs when the next version is released.
Comment by nl6720 (nl6720) - Wednesday, 05 August 2020, 10:06 GMT
exfatprogs is now in community: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/exfatprogs/ .

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