More than a decade ago, in 2012, Microsoft released its 64 bit exFAT Extended File Allocation Table file system as the successor to 32 bit FAT32. Seven years later, in 2019, the Redmond giant made a big revelation when it announced support for the exFAT format in Linux . Fast forward a decade, in 2022, Sony engineer Yuezhang Mo found that reducing repeated traversal of directory entries improved the performance of exFAT by up to 57% . This was pushed in Linux kernel version 6.2. Mo is back to...
