From: "Alejandro Riveira Fernández" <ariveira@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>,
Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:30:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090405153041.08238acf@varda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D8510A.3010606@zytor.com>
El Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:34:50 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> escribió:
> Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >>
> >> 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. ;)
> >
>
> Ironically enough, one of the better filesystems for being supported by
> many OSes is probably ext2. However, that doesn't mean it is even in
> the same rough ballpark as (V)FAT.
What about UDF ?
>
> -hpa
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-05 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-31 8:15 Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media Martin Steigerwald
2009-03-31 12:57 ` Mark Williamson
2009-03-31 13:47 ` Xavier Bestel
2009-03-31 15:02 ` Mark Williamson
2009-03-31 15:21 ` Xavier Bestel
2009-03-31 15:53 ` Mark Williamson
2009-04-02 17:51 ` Bryan Henderson
2009-04-03 8:28 ` Martin Steigerwald
2009-04-05 6:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-05 13:30 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández [this message]
2009-04-05 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-05 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-06 19:46 ` Nicholas Miell
2009-04-06 19:46 ` Nicholas Miell
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