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Subject: Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:30:41 +0200
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Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>,
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El Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:34:50 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> escribi=C3=B3:

> 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 futur=
e is
> >> able to read and write VFAT.  Do you envision some other filesyste=
m
> >> format achieving that status?
> >=20
> > That was my (possibly crazy) idea yes. ;)
> >=20
>=20
> 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 ?
>=20
> 	-hpa
>=20