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The great step forward of Android 14 in terms of storage

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After giving us ‘exFAT’ in Android 13 with kernel 5.10, it seems that Google is now preparing support for ‘NTFS’ with Linux kernel 5.15 and Android 14.

The great step forward of Android 14 in terms of storage

It is still a chimera to speak of Android 14and that Google has already provided us with data such as the landing of a first beta would be available in second quarter of next year 2023.

Be that as it may, some of the news that they are preparing in Mountain View for the fourteenth iteration of its mobile platform can already be found in the form of tickets at Android Open Source Projectso fellow like the popular Mishaal Rahman they have already set to work to go breaking down everything important that appears about android u.

Smartphone RAM memory

And finally, Android is preparing to natively support NTFS memories.

And in this case, the novelty is very important because apparently, after native support to ‘exFAT’in Google they would be working to offer the possibility of mounting on Android memory drives formatted with NTFS.

Right here you have the entry in the AOSP website in case you want to follow up, although now we have where would be the novelties and where the limitationswhich surely there will be.

The first Android 14 Beta already has a release date

To begin with, it should be remembered that Android 13 with Linux kernel 5.10 and later already implements the possibility of natively use the file system ‘exFAT’no less than 13 years after its launch.

This compatibility is precisely limited to Linux kernel 5.10, and here is the main drawback because mobile devices do not usually replace or update their Linux kernel out of the boxdespite the fact that Android versions are updated with major updates.

So only the mobiles made by Google of last generationsthe Pixel 6 , Pixel 6 Pro , Pixel 6a , Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, as well as some other flagship from different manufacturers As is the case with Samsung’s Galaxy S family, they will be able to enjoy this extended file system.

Android 14 could support NTFS

Screenshot of the entry related to NTFS support, in the Android Open Source Project.

As to NTFSthe first thing is that Microsoft has never opened this format officially, so Linux kernel 5.15 and later use a controller open source by Paragon Software to have full read and write support for these types of file systems.

The limitation would be identical, since it would be linked to kernel 5.15, although the improvement is very important for have that continuity between the Windows PC and an Android smartphone that they could thus mount the same memory units regardless of format and without further problems.

Obviously we are before the first steps of this native compatibilitysince Google would still have to develop the service (or “daemon”) that would be in charge of mounting the different memory volumes, although it is good to see that they are working on it already with Android 14 on the horizon and in sight.

Very positive news, despite ‘exFAT’ being more widespread!



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