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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Alejandro Riveira Fernández" <ariveira@gmail.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, 05 Apr 2009 13:05:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D90EED.2060703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090405153041.08238acf@varda>

Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote:
>>>
>> 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 ?

Good point.  UDF is probably widely supported, but again, not in the
same ballpark.  I don't personally know how complex UDF is to implement
on a small memory device.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Alejandro Riveira Fernández" <ariveira@gmail.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, 05 Apr 2009 13:05:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D90EED.2060703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090405153041.08238acf@varda>

Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote:
>>>
>> 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 ?

Good point.  UDF is probably widely supported, but again, not in the
same ballpark.  I don't personally know how complex UDF is to implement
on a small memory device.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-05 20:05 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
2009-04-05 20:05         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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