In mid-2012, Microsoft released the exFAT file system as a 64-bit replacement for the outdated FAT32. This system was initially released for Windows, but about seven years later, in 2019, the company confirmed that it would also be open to the Linux ecosystem.

And now, the file system seems to be in big news again for anyone who uses this file system with Linux. With the new Linux 6.2 kernel, exFAT has seen a number of performance improvements – a large part of which is due to optimizations implemented by Sony.

Yuezhang Mo, Sony engineer, Came to confirm Any change to the file system can greatly improve its performance within the Linux ecosystem. This procedure has been implemented in the latest Linux kernel versions, so everyone can benefit.

Performance improvements can, in some scenarios, reach more than 57% compared to what was previously found. However, on average this value approaches 35% improvement.

Regardless, the performance improvements can be very significant for anyone who uses this file system between different systems – since it’s compatible with both Windows and Linux, many users choose to use it in mobile environments.

Interestingly, this isn’t the first time Sony has made improvements to the exFAT file system. In January of this year, the company also revealed that some changes to exFAT could lead to performance improvements of about 85% in certain situations.