[PATCH] INSTALL: Use exfat-utils package instead of exfatprogs

[PATCH] INSTALL: Use exfat-utils package instead of exfatprogs

[Glenn Washburn]

The exfat-utils package is an older package complementing exfat-fuse, and
was the only exfat tools for a long time. The exfat filesystem testing code
was written with these tools in mind. A newer project exfatprogs appears to
be of better quality and functionality and was written to complement the
somewhat new exfat kernel module. Ideally we should be using the newer
exfatprogs. However, the commandline interface for mkfs.exfat is different
between the two. So we can't use the exfatprogs tools until the test scripts
have been updated to account for this. Recommend installing exfat-utils
instead of exfatprogs for now.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
---
 INSTALL | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 87947df15386..b93fe9c61f1a 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Prerequisites for make-check:
     exfat FUSE filesystem
 * The following are Debian named packages required mostly for the full
   suite of filesystem testing (but some are needed by other tests as well):
-  - btrfs-progs, dosfstools, e2fsprogs, exfatprogs, f2fs-tools, genromfs,
+  - btrfs-progs, dosfstools, e2fsprogs, exfat-utils, f2fs-tools, genromfs,
     hfsprogs, jfsutils, nilfs-tools, ntfs-3g, reiserfsprogs, squashfs-tools,
     reiserfsprogs, udftools, xfsprogs, zfs-fuse
   - exfat-fuse, if not using the exfat kernel module
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH] INSTALL: Use exfat-utils package instead of exfatprogs

[Daniel Kiper]

On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:21:20PM -0500, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> The exfat-utils package is an older package complementing exfat-fuse, and
> was the only exfat tools for a long time. The exfat filesystem testing code
> was written with these tools in mind. A newer project exfatprogs appears to
> be of better quality and functionality and was written to complement the
> somewhat new exfat kernel module. Ideally we should be using the newer
> exfatprogs. However, the commandline interface for mkfs.exfat is different
> between the two. So we can't use the exfatprogs tools until the test scripts
> have been updated to account for this. Recommend installing exfat-utils
> instead of exfatprogs for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>

Daniel