enable support for ExFAT

[chombourger]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. ExFAT is a popular file-system when needing to share data between Linux and Windows when you do not need all the bells and whistles from NTFS but don't want the limitations of FAT32 (such as being limited to files < 4GiB).

Describe the solution you'd like Amend Microsoft/config-wsl to enable CONFIG_EXFAT_FS

Describe alternatives you've considered Could use FUSE or require my users to build and load their own WSL2 kernel

Additional context Hopefully everything above sheds some light as to the intent. I am happy to submit a Pull Request if you see some value in having out-of-the-box support for EXFAT in WSL2

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[chombourger]

Thank you bot. I should note that my use-case is to re-use a build-script that runs flawlessly on Linux systems but fails on WSL2. That scripts creates a loopback device, partitions the (virtual) block device and creates an ExFAT file-system. It then mounts with a regular mount copy and copies files over.

It therefore seems that #8653 and #11285 have different use-cases.

[EatPrilosec]

is there a reason its taking years to change one line in a kernel config????

[EatPrilosec]

if i fork and make a PR will someone push the damn thing or does it have to sit here for another 3 years.

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel/compare/linux-msft-wsl-6.6.y...EatPrilosec:WSL2-Linux-Kernel:patch-1