Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764373AbZDBRvh (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:51:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751238AbZDBRv0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:51:26 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:50034 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750919AbZDBRvZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:51:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200903311015.29222.Martin@Lichtvoll.de> To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: info@linuxfoundation.org, info@fsf.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, office@fsfeurope.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0 HF277 June 21, 2006 Message-ID: From: Bryan Henderson Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:51:21 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D01ML604/01/M/IBM(Release 8.5|December 05, 2008) at 04/02/2009 13:51:21, Serialize complete at 04/02/2009 13:51:21 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1035 Lines: 27 > Now as TomTom appears to have surrendered to Microsoft and Microsoft seems > to have accepted this deal probably in order to not find out that their > patents are void, I think replacing VFAT as standard cross platform > filesystem on removeable media would be an even better idea than before > [1]. > [1] > http://www.h-online.com/open/TomTom-Microsoft-settle-patent-dispute--/news/112964 How do you mean "replace"? VFAT's standardness today comes from the fact that virtually every personal computer in the world today and for the foreseeable future is able to read and write VFAT. Do you envision some other filesystem format achieving that status? -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Storage Systems -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/