Re: Support for booting KNOPPIX from exFAT flash disk?

[JD <jd1008@gmail.com>]

On 05/27/2013 02:46 PM, Milan Knížek wrote:
> Hello Klaus,
>
> do you plan to implement the possibility to boot from exFAT USB flash
> disk?
>
> exFAT is supported accross modern systems (OS X, Linux, MS Windows) and
> it is a pitty to limit the nowadays' huge flash disks by FAT32's max
> file size of 4 GB. (I put KNOPPIX on a regular flash disk that I also
> use for data.)
>
> I guess it would require a different boot loader (Grub 2.x, possibly
> others), static binary mount.exfat-fuse and a slight adjustment of
> init's trymount() function in minirt.gz. And of course update of
> flash-knoppix script. (It works for me, though I used dynamic binary
> mount.exfat-fuse with all the library dependencies.)
>
> regards,
> Milan
This is a fine idea. I only wish that the technology would advance
more and alleviate the wear-down of flash technology by the high
frequency of writes, and of course, latency to be reduced and transfer
rate made not comparable to HD's, but made substantially faster.
Until this happens, I backup my bootable flash disk to HD once a week.