--- title: Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs description: Exfatprogs 1.4.3 has been released, improving fsck.exfat scanning speed by optimizing unused dentry scans and enabling larger-batch reads, though no benchmark... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-exfat-programs-1-4-3-improves-fsck-mkfs-vmllwjvgy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs | daily.dev og:description: Exfatprogs 1.4.3 has been released, improving fsck.exfat scanning speed by optimizing unused dentry scans and enabling larger-batch reads, though no benchmark... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-exfat-programs-1-4-3-improves-fsck-mkfs-vmllwjvgy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vMllWjVGY.png og:image:alt: Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Exfatprogs 1.4.3 has been released, improving fsck.exfat scanning speed by optimizing unused dentry scans and enabling larger-batch reads, though no benchmark numbers were shared. The release also adds full locale support for diagnostic messages and date formatting, improves mkfs.exfat for creating new exFAT file systems, and includes several bug fixes. The update arrives ahead of the expected Linux 7.2 kernel release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What changed in exfatprogs 1.4.3 for fsck.exfat performance? Exfatprogs 1.4.3 speeds up fsck.exfat by optimizing unused dentry scans and scanning unused dentries in larger reads, improving scan speed on large unused directory tails. No specific performance benchmark numbers were published for either patch. 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