Linux’s exFAT Progs 1.4.4 Adds Optional I/O Statistics Collection for Profiling Exfatprogs (exFAT Progs) 1.4.4, exFAT filesystem userspace utilities for Linux, has been released today with several improvements, a new feature, and multiple bug fixes. Exfatprogs 1.4.4 is the fourth minor update in the Exfatprogs 1.4 series, coming three months after Exfatprogs 1.4.3. This release introduces a new feature to the exfatprogs command, namely optional I/O statistics collection for profiling read, write, discard, zero-out, and sync operations. This release also updates mkfs.exfat to increase full-format speed by using BLKZEROOUT when supported, selecting larger zeroing batches, and improving quiet and trace progress output, and reducing page-cache pollution during full formatting on systems that support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE. Several bugs were fixed in Exfatprogs 1.4.4 for the mkfs.exfat command, avoiding memory-reservation failures when creating very large allocation bitmaps, and marking the percentage of used clusters as unknown until it is calculated. The fsck.exfat command received the most attention, with fixes to prevent arithmetic overflows and out-of-bounds reads by rejecting malformed boot sector geometry, avoid printing version information during automatic repair with the “-p” or “-a” arguments, and missing line breaks in error messages. In addition, the fsck.exfat command now stops immediately on I/O errors instead of treating them as file system inconsistencies. The dump.exfat command was updated to print complete file timestamps in raw and ISO formats, while the exfat2img command now keeps metadata image output on stdout free of status messages. Last but not least, the exfatprogs command received fixes for parsing kernel versions and boolean environment variables, and showing the correct usage text for overwrite and read-back verification options. Check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for more details about the changes included in exFAT Progs 1.4.4, from where you can download the source tarball if you want to compile it on your Linux distro. However, it is recommended to install Exfatprogs from your distro’s stable repositories. Exfatprogs was designed as official userspace utilities that contain all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, and debugging exFAT filesystems in Linux distributions. The goal of the exfatprogs project is to provide Linux users with the same high performance and quality as the exFAT utilities in Windows.