From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] remove UMSDOS
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:17:43 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ccs797$bd3$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6.1.1.1.0.20040711120748.041c8e60@no.incoming.mail
Followup to: <6.1.1.1.0.20040711120748.041c8e60@no.incoming.mail>
By author: Jeff Woods <Kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> At 7/11/2004 01:28 PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >UMSDOS in 2.6 is broken, and it seems no one needs it enough to bother
> >fixing it.
>
> Once upon a time, everyone using any Microsoft OS used FAT, but with the
> proliferation of Windows 2000 and XP, NTFS is becoming much more
> common. (And note that Windows folks most likely to benefit from a
> mechanism like UMSDOS are also more likely to be using NTFS rather than
> FAT.) At the same time, the need to run Linux on a system with all the disc
> space allocated for Windows is being met by Knoppix, VMware, and similar
> techniques rather than the relative kludge of actually installing Linux on
> a FAT filesystem. The days of UMSDOS are behind us.
>
Realistically I think it's VFAT that killed it.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-11 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-11 11:28 RFC: [2.6 patch] remove UMSDOS Adrian Bunk
2004-07-11 18:17 ` Jeff Woods
2004-07-11 20:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-07-24 18:26 ` mnalis
2004-07-29 22:29 ` Randy.Dunlap
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