Re: exfat driver as a gsoc project: mentors wanted

On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 11:01:55PM +0000, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> It is possible to mount, read, and write exfat filesystems on FreeBSD
> using the fusefs-exfat-1.4.0_1 port/package running on the Fuse interface.
> My light testing of it shows that it all works as expected except that
> it does not seem to understand uids and gids (everything shows as
> root:wheel even though many of the files and directories on my test
> disk had other owners and groups). Attempts to change owner or group
> failed with "Operation not permitted".
> 
> That said, having a Summer of Code project that added native exfat
> support to the existing msdos filesystem implenetation could be useful
> down the road.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27376
Old ro Isilon code