On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 19:16, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@gmail.com> wrote:
I have several external disk drives from the same vendor.  According to
the vendor recent drives are formatted exfat while prior ones where
formatted ntfs.  According to what I find on the web file system type
fuseblk should work for both exfat and nfts. I have a new 12TB drive and
when I plug it in mate-system-monitor reports it as type exfat not fuseblk.

Microsoft open-sourced exFAT under GPL2 and it was accepted in the 5.4 kernel:
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/

Samsung contributed exFAT to the 5.9 kernel:
exFAT File-System Performance On Linux 5.9 - Phoronix
 

What determines whether a file system type is reported as exfat, ntfs,
or fuseblk?   
fuseblk is report if the kernel driver for the filesystem isn't installed
or is blacklisted.
 
If the drive is formatted exFAT, it won't be mounted as ntfs.  If your kernel 
has one of the exFAT drivers and it isn't blacklisted, it should be used in 
preference to fuseblk.   


The drive works fine and is accessible from F34, I'm just curious why
mate-system-monitor does not report it as type fuseblk.


Note that some operations give poor performance with the exFAT 
kernel driver.  I assume people are working to improve exFAT 
performance -- the usual trajectory is first get it right, then get it
fast.

--
George N. White III