[gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, in a recent Heise article (in German) at https://www.heise.de/news/SystemRescue-8-00-GnuPG-Schluessel-im-Notfall-einfach-ausdrucken-5078896.html?wt_mc=nl.red.ho.ho-nl-windows.2021-03-15.link.link about "SystemRescue" the author mentions among other things that the old packet "exfa

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 16:22:45 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > in a recent Heise article (in German) at > > > https://www.heise.de/news/SystemRescue-8-00-GnuPG-Schluessel-im-Notfall-einfach-ausdrucken-5078896.html?wt_mc=nl.red.ho.ho-nl-windows.2021-03-15.link.link > > about "SystemRescue" the

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/20/21 9:52 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Looking at the github readme, it wold appear that exfat-progs is for use with the new in-kernel exfat fs, while exfat-utils is a companion to the older FUSE implementation of exfat. Maybe I need more caffeine, but I can't see the /direct/ relationship

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:27:23 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > > Looking at the github readme, it wold appear that exfat-progs is for > > use with the new in-kernel exfat fs, while exfat-utils is a companion > > to the older FUSE implementation of exfat. > > Maybe I need more caffeine, but I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/20/21 11:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm not saying there is a direct relationship, but the exfat-progs readme states it is for use with the new in-kernel fs while exfat-utils is from the same devs as the FUSE module. Okay. I'll accept what's written on the tin as what the targeted envir

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:27:23 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > >>> Looking at the github readme, it wold appear that exfat-progs is for >>> use with the new in-kernel exfat fs, while exfat-utils is a companion >>> to the older FUSE implementation of exfat. >> Maybe I need more

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 20 March 2021 17:45:17 GMT Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:27:23 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > >>> Looking at the github readme, it wold appear that exfat-progs is for > >>> use with the new in-kernel exfat fs, while exfat-utils is a companion > >>> to the

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Dale, On Saturday, 2021-03-20 12:45:17 -0500, you wrote: > ... > If it helps any, the newer one requires a 5.7 or higher kernel. Ok, since I'm currently only using stable kernels, I'm on 5.4, and thus I'll probably still have to wait a little before dumping "sys-fs/exfat- utils" in favour of "