Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761654AbZDCI2k (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 04:28:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758920AbZDCI2X (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 04:28:23 -0400 Received: from mondschein.lichtvoll.de ([194.150.191.11]:57316 "EHLO mail.lichtvoll.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755662AbZDCI2V (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 04:28:21 -0400 From: Martin Steigerwald To: Bryan Henderson Subject: Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 10:28:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: (sfid-20090403_102506_091012_8ECF2D52) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1289101.ojZNLKxO7T"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200904031029.03581.Martin@lichtvoll.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1689 Lines: 52 --nextPart1289101.ojZNLKxO7T Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Donnerstag 02 April 2009 schrieb Bryan Henderson: > > 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--/n >ews/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? That was my (possibly crazy) idea yes. ;) =2D-=20 Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 --nextPart1289101.ojZNLKxO7T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAknVyMgACgkQmRvqrKWZhMfPugCffLgAWkbxMl4AZhyuNm8bohld nD8Anjf8E/IgCQffFBQJiuVFfd624pAw =Pb6m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1289101.ojZNLKxO7T-- -- 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/