Bug 16034

Summary: move fuse-exfat to tainted media (was: fuse-exfat not installed (patent issues))
Product: Mageia Reporter: maurice rosenfelder <maurice>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: marcounet, sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: Mageia 6   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Adoption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Restrictive_licensing_and_software_patents
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: fuse-exfat CVE:
Status comment:

Description maurice rosenfelder 2015-05-24 10:53:30 CEST 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.insert usb memory in ex-fat
2.if you try to mount it, the error is  : mount: type de système de fichiers « exfat » inconnu (french version)
3.error corrected by installing fuse-exfat.rpm


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-25 08:57:56 CEST 
No it never was installed by default

CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud
Component: Installer => Release (media or process)
Source RPM: (none) => meta-task

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-25 09:02:12 CEST 
There's an issue with patents. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Adoption
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Restrictive_licensing_and_software_patents

URL: (none) => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Adoption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Restrictive_licensing_and_software_patents

Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-25 17:35:19 CEST

Summary: fuse-exfat not installed. It was in mageia 4 => fuse-exfat not installed

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-31 21:02:28 CEST 
We should move fuse-exfat to tainted media then?

Assignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa
Summary: fuse-exfat not installed => fuse-exfat not installed (patent issues, move to tainted?)
Source RPM: meta-task => fuse-exfat

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2015-05-31 21:42:50 CEST 
I think so
Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-06 02:03:53 CEST

Component: Release (media or process) => RPM Packages
Hardware: x86_64 => All

Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-06 17:07:38 CEST

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 6

Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-06 17:08:13 CEST

Summary: fuse-exfat not installed (patent issues, move to tainted?) => move fuse-exfat to tainted media (was: fuse-exfat not installed (patent issues))

Comment 5 marc fanjoux 2015-07-28 08:34:52 CEST 
hello !
I have an usb memory stick .
fuse-exfat and util-exfat are installed .

fdisk -l say :

Disque /dev/sdc : 62,5 GiB, 67108864000 octets, 131072000 secteurs
Unités : secteur de 1 à 512 = 512 octets
Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets
taille d'E/S (minimale / optimale) : 512 octets / 512 octets
Type d'étiquette de disque : dos
Identifiant de disque : 0x00000000

Mcc don't see this stick !!

When i copy some files on this with Dolphin, some are filled with "0"

original
FF D8 FF E1 FF FE 45 78 69 66 00 00 4D 4D 00 2A 00 00 00 08 00 0D 01 0F 00 02 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 AC 01 10 00 02 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 C0 01 12 00 03 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 01 1A 00 05 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 CC 01 1B 00 05 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 D4 01 28 00 03 00 00 00 01 00

copy
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

[root@localhost ~]# sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdc  
is ok

[root@localhost ~]# sudo dumpexfat /dev/sdc
dumpexfat 1.1.0
Volume label                        
Volume serial number      0xa01ef8fb
FS version                       1.0
Sector size                      512
Cluster size                  131072
Sectors count              131072000
Free sectors                90109952
Clusters count                511983
Free clusters                 351992
First sector                       0
FAT first sector                 128
FAT sectors count               4224
First cluster sector            4352
Root directory cluster             4
Volume state                  0x0000
FATs count                         1
Drive number                    0x80
Allocated space                  31%

[root@localhost ~]# fsck.exfat /dev/sdc
exfatfsck 1.1.0
Checking file system on /dev/sdc.
File system version           1.0
Sector size                 512 bytes
Cluster size                128 KB
Volume size                  63 GB
Used space                   20 GB
Available space              43 GB
ERROR: file '04-06-2006_11-20-11.JPG' has invalid cluster 0x0.
ERROR: file '04-06-2006_11-20-30.JPG' has invalid cluster 0x0.
.....

CC: (none) => marcounet

Comment 6 marc fanjoux 2015-07-30 07:25:18 CEST 
excuse me !... key defective
Comment 7 Jani Välimaa 2015-08-25 20:01:13 CEST 
Fuse-exfat and exfat-utils were removed from core/release and pushed to tainted/release instead.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED