On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 08:09:52PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > However, 95% of this use case is already covered by FAT, considering > that most of these people are going to want to interchange with windows > and mac, neither of which are necessarily happy with an ext3 formatted > USB stick. (Sadly, that's what I normally do. My usb keychain is fat > formatted, because otherwise I can't use it to give a PDF to the guy at > kinko's to print out. I suspect this is why it hasn't previously come up > much.) The other reason why I suspect it hasn't come up often is that USB sticks are so painfully slow that the file system really isn't a bottleneck. I would expct this might be different if you were using a removable HDD (or even an SSD) with a USB 3.0 interface. In that case you really might want a bette file system than VFAT, especially if you are interchanging with another Linux system with an incompatible uid/gid namespace. That's not nearly as common a use case, though. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
