ExFAT
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* [http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=2009164539&KC=&FT=E&locale=en_EP Patent application: US2009164539] | * [http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=2009164539&KC=&FT=E&locale=en_EP Patent application: US2009164539] | ||
* [http://readwrite.com/2013/01/22/open-source-file-system-takes-on-microsofts-exfat-patents Open Source File System Takes On Microsoft's exFAT Patents] | * [http://readwrite.com/2013/01/22/open-source-file-system-takes-on-microsofts-exfat-patents Open Source File System Takes On Microsoft's exFAT Patents] | ||
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Revision as of 03:28, 9 October 2013
exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is not a formerly obese person, but a filesystem created by Microsoft that is designed for flash memory devices. It supports higher limits to sizes of files and of the entire partition than earlier FAT filesystems such as FAT32. It is a proprietary Microsoft system with no publicly-released spec, though efforts to reverse-engineer it for an open-source project have proceeded. Such projects could, however, run into legal problems since there is a patent pending on the system.
While it is a Microsoft system, exFAT is designed to be compatible with Mac OS X 10.6.5 as well as Windows XP and up.
