Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753726AbZGLL1W (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:27:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752174AbZGLL1M (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:27:12 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:58647 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751849AbZGLL1L (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:27:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:27:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rn_Engel?= cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Jonathan Corbet , Martin Steigerwald , David Newall , Christoph Hellwig , Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , James Bottomley , tridge@samba.org, 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 In-Reply-To: <20090712112114.GA3059@logfs.org> Message-ID: References: <20090708110451.1092afa7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <200907102049.12427.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <20090710133127.6839dc87@bike.lwn.net> <200907102240.15773.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20090712112114.GA3059@logfs.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LSU 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 23 On Sunday 2009-07-12 13:21, Jörn Engel wrote: >[ 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. The next best would probably be UDF, which is already used on DVDs and thus is implemented in a number of devices - though probably only disc-reading ones. There's your market hole, dear vendors. -- 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/