sd card file system on android

[Shlomo Solomon]

The original poster mentioned wanting to save files larger than 2 Gb.
The limit on Fat32 is 4Gb, so I don't see the problem. 

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:27:51 +0300
Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> --
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Efraim Flashner <
> > efraim.flashner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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