Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754498AbZGLLWK (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:22:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751602AbZGLLV7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:21:59 -0400 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:33318 "EHLO longford.logfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751497AbZGLLV6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:21:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:21:14 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Martin Steigerwald , David Newall , Christoph Hellwig , Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , James Bottomley , tridge@samba.org, Jan Engelhardt , Rusty Russell , Pavel Machek , john.lanza@linux.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , jcm@jonmasters.org Subject: Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions Message-ID: <20090712112114.GA3059@logfs.org> References: <20090708110451.1092afa7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200907102049.12427.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <20090710133127.6839dc87@bike.lwn.net> <200907102240.15773.bzolnier@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200907102240.15773.bzolnier@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 22 [ Ignoring all legal and moral aspects...] On Fri, 10 July 2009 22:40:14 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Microsoft having patents on their *obsolete* filesystem should be *their* FAT is far from obsolete. It is practically always the filesystem of choice and often the only filesystem when trying to move data from one system to another. The next best alternatives are isofs and ext2. And I don't know a single digital camera, mp3 player or cellphone that speaks either. Jörn -- Joern's library part 5: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part2/section-9.html -- 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/