linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

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Date:   Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:53:13 +0200
From:   Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:     Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: add exfat filesystem code to staging

On Wednesday 16 October 2019 17:53:43 Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
> and may cause problems if Linux says "currently using FAT 2", and the
> disk is next used on a Windows 10 box that only looks at FAT 1....

You should use same algorithm which is used for FAT32. Primary FAT is
first. And all operations are done on Secondary FAT and then is
Secondary FAT copied to Primary. This is backward compatible with
systems which operates only with first primary FAT. And other systems
which see both FATs can benefit from redundancy/recovery.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com