From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xavier Bestel Subject: Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:47:07 +0200 Message-ID: <1238507227.27596.559.camel@skunk> References: <200903311015.29222.Martin@Lichtvoll.de> <200903311357.44075.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Martin Steigerwald , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, info@fsf.org, office@fsfeurope.org, info@linuxfoundation.org To: Mark Williamson Return-path: Received: from smtp19.orange.fr ([80.12.242.17]:58273 "EHLO smtp19.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755791AbZCaNrb (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:47:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200903311357.44075.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 13:57 +0100, Mark Williamson wrote: > Another approach which occurs to me would be to come up with a "filesystem over > USB" protocol so that the actual on-disk format is no longer relevant. Look for MTP. It's what you want, made by Microsoft, and enables all sorts of DRM niceties. Xav