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Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container
Date 2020-09-21 16:30 +0200
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On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:09:07 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-09-19 07:57, David Wright wrote:
> > The fuse documentation is so fragmentary, scattered and sparse that
> > I haven't really got a good feel for what is is or how it works.
> > I'm always thinking that I've missed some option or other that allows
> > it to work as I expected it to.
> 
> 2020-09-19 14:04:40 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~
> $ apt-cache search fuse | grep FAT
> exfat-fuse - read and write exFAT driver for FUSE
> fusefat - File System in User Space - Module for FAT
> umview-mod-umfusefat - View-OS in user space - FAT module for UMFUSE
> 
> Have you tried exfat-fuse or fusefat?

I think exfat-fuse is what I am using, and fusefat appears to consider
rw as experimental, from what I have read.

On Mon 21 Sep 2020 at 08:53:00 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 19 sep 20, 09:57:37, David Wright wrote:
> > 
> > Do you know if fuse exFAT is a stopgap, and support in the kernel is
> > eventually coming, or was a fuse implementation necessarily chosen
> > to support exFAT on account of some particular problem. It seems odd
> > that pmount, for example, doesn't support exFAT (which would seem
> > a prime candidate).
> 
> https://fossbytes.com/linux-5-7-microsofts-exfat-driver-code/

Thanks. In which case, I think I'll pause on doing anything about
exFAT in the immediate future. Currently I max out at 32GB on SD
cards; anything larger is either USB or spinning rust. (Also, as
I write this, my SO is getting ubuntu installed as a VM on her
Windows machine.)

Cheers,
David.

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Two questions about LUKS in a file container rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-12 18:20 +0200
  Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-09-12 18:50 +0200
  Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2020-09-12 21:10 +0200
    Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 11:00 +0200
      Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-16 22:00 +0200
        Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-16 23:40 +0200
          Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-17 22:40 +0200
            Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-19 17:00 +0200
              Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-19 23:10 +0200
              Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 08:00 +0200
                Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-21 16:30 +0200
  Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-09-12 21:40 +0200
    Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-13 01:00 +0200
  Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-13 00:20 +0200
    Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-13 02:10 +0200
  Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-13 17:20 +0200
    Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-13 17:30 +0200

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