#async #fat #exfat

no-std embedded-exfat

ExFAT filesystem library with async support, mainly focusing on embedded system

8 unstable releases (3 breaking)

Uses new Rust 2024

new 0.4.0 Nov 4, 2025
0.3.1 Oct 28, 2025
0.2.4 Feb 12, 2023
0.1.1 Jan 25, 2023

#338 in Filesystem

Download history 119/week @ 2025-10-27

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MIT license

105KB
2.5K SLoC

embedded-exfat

An exFAT Library in rust mainly focusing on no_std embedded system with async support

alloc is mandatory for this crate, although memory allocation is minimized, 256B for upcase table and 12B plus name size for each file or directory, and 12B for root directory.

For async scenario, enable tokio feature if std library available otherwide enable async feature

For no_std scenario, be aware that thread safety is provided by spin crate, which potenitally leads to dead lock.

Using this crate

use std::io::Write;
use exfat::error::Error;
use exfat::io::std::FileIO;
use exfat::ExFAT;
use exfat::FileOrDirectory;

let io = FileIO::open(device).map_err(|e| Error::IO(e)).unwrap();
let mut exfat = ExFAT::new(io).unwrap();
exfat.validate_checksum().unwrap();
let mut root = exfat.root_directory().unwrap();
root.validate_upcase_table_checksum().unwrap();
let mut file = match root.open().unwrap().open("test.txt").unwrap() {
    FileOrDirectory::File(f) => f,
    FileOrDirectory::Directory(_) => panic!("Not a file"),
};
let mut stdout = std::io::stdout();
let mut buf = [0u8; 512];
loop {
    let size = file.read(&mut buf).unwrap();
    stdout.write_all(&buf[..size]).unwrap();
    if size < buf.len() {
        break;
    }
}

Features

  • async

    Enable async support

  • tokio

    Enable async support with tokio

  • smol

    Enable async support with smol

  • std (enable by default)

    Use std library

  • extern-datetime-now

    Link an external exfat_datetime_now function to get current datetime, If not enabled, a default datetime will be used.

  • logging

    Enable logging, otherwise disabled at compile time

  • max-filename-size-30

    Limit filename size to 30 bytes to reduce stack cost, any file or directory name longer than this size will be ignored, creating file with name size exceeds will return error.

Dependencies

~1.2–7.5MB
~160K SLoC