Feature changed by: Flavio Castelli (flavio_castelli) Feature #316872, revision 2 Title: Support exfat out of the box openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Flavio Castelli (flavio_castelli) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Latest version of openSUSE (13.1) cannot mount disks formatted using - exFAT file system. There's a GPL kernel driver provided by Samsung - which seems to be working fine: * - https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse * - http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/ There are - already packages for that inside of OBS: * + exFAT file system. + There's a GPL kernel driver provided by Samsung which seems to be + working fine: + * https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse + * http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/ + There are already packages for that inside of OBS: http://software.opensuse.org/package/exfat-nofuse It would be nice (and really user friendly) to have these packages shipped with the default kernel *or* to have them within the official openSUSE repositories. Use Case: A friend of mine gives me a usb key with some documents I need to copy. - The usb key is formatted using exFAT, because that's what Windows - proposed to my friend. + The usb key is formatted using exFAT. I plug the usb key into my openSUSE computer and I'm immediately able to view its contents. Business case (Partner benefit): - openSUSE.org: Because latest windows version are pushing usage of this - file systems. openSUSE users must be able to access usb disks/drives - without having to mess around with the kernel/zypper. + openSUSE.org: Latest windows version are pushing usage of this file + systems. openSUSE users must be able to access usb disks/drives without + having to mess around with the kernel/zypper. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316872

Feature changed by: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) Feature #316872, revision 6 Title: Support exfat out of the box - openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) + reject reason: This cannot be implemented in openSUSE at the moment for + legal reasons. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Flavio Castelli (flavio_castelli) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Latest version of openSUSE (13.1) cannot mount disks formatted using exFAT file system. There's a GPL kernel driver provided by Samsung which seems to be working fine: * https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse * http://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/ There are already packages for that inside of OBS: http://software.opensuse.org/package/exfat-nofuse It would be nice (and really user friendly) to have these packages shipped with the default kernel *or* to have them within the official openSUSE repositories. + Relations: + - usb drive with exfat causes over-complicated error message + (novell/bugzilla/id: 868069) + https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868069 Use Case: A friend of mine gives me a usb key with some documents I need to copy. The usb key is formatted using exFAT. I plug the usb key into my openSUSE computer and I'm immediately able to view its contents. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Latest windows version are pushing usage of this file systems. openSUSE users must be able to access usb disks/drives without having to mess around with the kernel/zypper. Discussion: #1: Denisart Benjamin (posophe) (2014-01-22 14:02:50) It would be better to talk directly with package maintainer of exfat- nofuse package for pushing package in a devel project. And please discuss it on opensuse-factory maillist to ensure having a quick react. + #2: Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) (2016-11-17 08:58:36) + This cannot be implemented in openSUSE at the moment due to legal + reasons, see boo#868069 + (https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=868069) . -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316872