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Hi Everyone!
I'm working in different environments (Bubba2 (Linux), Windows and MacOS). To able to have a FileSystem that supports all these environments and also managing files bigger than 4096GB I selected exFAT on my external diskdrive. It works fine but I'm not able to mount my disk in the Bubba web interface by default.

I found this guide which worked perfectly fine and I'm now able to mount my exFAT disk to my Bubba.

A question to the development team; could you please add this as a default feature in upcoming releases and give possibility to mount automatically from the web interface?

Instead of "sudo" go to "root" mode by entering "su" and type your root password.
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install subversion scons libfuse-dev gcc
$ svn co http://exfat.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ exfat-read-only
$ cd exfat-read-only
$ scons
$ sudo scons install
$ cd ..
$ rm –rf exfat-read-only (OPTIONAL - ONLY IF YOU WANT TO REMOVE THIS DIRECTORY)
$ sudo mkdir /media/whatever [creating mountpoint - example: sudo mkdir /media/exfat]
$ sudo mount –t exfat-fuse [device_path] [mountpoint]

Thanks, added to our list for future work! Can't promise it soon though..

I wounder if including open source exFAT implementation into the distribution is a good idee since it is an according to Wikipedia proprietary, patent-pending file system by Microsoft which takes license fee for usage. I guess this could lead to all possible legal problems for Excito.

Yes, I also read that Microsoft started to sue wth that patent. We always check such things before doing anything so we'll have to see how it turns out.

Be aware that Microsoft can only sue Excito for selling exFAT-enabled devices, not users installing exFAT software. In other words, if a third party or a person would create a (non-profit ) theoretical, proof-of-concept implementation for users to implement exFAT, there's really not much MS can do about it.

May require some additional investigation.

File name in the original post seems to indicate that this is a read-only implementation and may therefore not be a breach of patent. The wiki that is referred to names some patents that are related to specific functions provided by exFat; does the open source read-only implementation address these functions?