sd card file system on android

[Rabin Yasharzadehe]

exFAT <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT> don't have the same limitation
like FAT,
And there some (custome) kernels out there which come with exFAT support.

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Rabin

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:38 PM, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Efraim. I will appreciate it. I can wait a day or two.
> @Rabin, I'm not interested in fat due to the size limit.
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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Efraim Flashner <
> efraim.flashner at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've heard that some Samsung phones are running F2FS to increase
>> performance/decrease NAND wear.  To me it seems likely that if they're
>> enabling that then they wouldn't be squeamish about enabling ext2/3/4.
>>
>> I think the sd card I used in my htc one v was ext4 formatted, but I
>> don't remember now.  I can check later, depending on how chag
>> preperations go this evening.
>>
>> -Efraim
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>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:13:13 +0300
>> Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:
>>
>> > It depends on the device,
>> > But probably all will support FAT (not exFAT) as it's the default for
>> > the external SDCARD.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rabin
>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:15 PM, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > What is already enabled in the kernel? FAT/ext2/ext3 ?
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Rabin Yasharzadehe
>> > > <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> It's a kernel future, and you will have to root the device to be
>> > >> able and change the mount option for the sdcard (on /system
>> > >> partition).
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> Rabin
>> > >>
>> > >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:04 AM, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com>
>> > >> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>> Hello All
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I am looking for phone models with android (maybe version
>> > >>> number)  that support sd card formated with ext2 or ext3.
>> > >>> Preferable ext2 since it's not journaled.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> I'd like to save big files (1-2gb each file) on the sd.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Thanks
>> > >>>
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