On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote: > From what I read it has the possibility of getting rid of FAT / NTFS on > flash devices; > which would be a good thing - and I thought that would be something the > Fedora community > would be interested with participating. UDF has been in the best position to do this for ~ 20 years, seeing as it has had Windows, OS X, and linux distro support for most of that time frame. And yet it didn't supplant FAT or NTFS on flash media on any platform or distribution. F2FS's main benefit is its tunablity. Meanwhile manufacturers aren't going to make the internal geometry or FTL scheme their using discoverable. Therefore a default format won't result in tuned storage. It'll require the initiator of the format command to have product specific knowledge so that the right format options are used. This suggests a manufacturer specific formatting utility, assuming the idea is to make F2FS general purpose across Windows, OS X and Linux. But since there are no Windows or OS X drivers that's a premature conclusion. I think more likely it's a way to supplant all other file systems, including Linux file systems, for tablets, phones, IVI, and other embedded products. The manufacturers of those systems can use F2FS across the board, and get the optimum formatting command from their flash vendor of choice; and as they find out, probably as Samsung hopes, that this will show Samsung flash outperforms everyone else when optimized, that more embedded product developers will choose Samsung flash. -- Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
