[chat] Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

[Peter Hardy <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(I'm assuming this was meant for the list in general, not just me)

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 14:11, mlh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:16:22AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
> > Because FAT is ubiqituous.  How does a hardware manufacturer like Canon
> > go about making Windows support a new filesystem?
> 
> They could use a standard file system,
> like oh say iso9660.
> 
> But I guess windows (by default) doesn't
> know how to write to it.

The Linux driver for it doesn't support writes either.

ISO9660 is a very bad choice.  It's designed to be read-only.  I think
the problem is that all files need to be contiguous, but it's been a
long time since I bothered looking...

> Are there any others?

That was pretty much my point - I don't think there are.  NTFS strikes
me as excessive for the sizes CF supports, and with MS on a licencing
spree, it's only delaying the inevitable.

-- 
Pete