Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753309AbZGMWUq (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:20:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757495AbZGMWUq (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:20:46 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:37214 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752866AbZGMWUp (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:20:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:20:13 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , 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 Message-ID: <20090713222013.GB28136@shareable.org> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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: 1173 Lines: 29 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sunday 2009-07-12 13:21, J?rn 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. UDF has already been mentioned on this thread, next to "looks usable in theory, now try it and find out it isn't". -- Jamie -- 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/