> Now as TomTom appears to have surrendered to Microsoft and Microsoft seems > to have accepted this deal probably in order to not find out that their > patents are void, I think replacing VFAT as standard cross platform > filesystem on removeable media would be an even better idea than before > [1]. > [1] > http://www.h-online.com/open/TomTom-Microsoft-settle-patent-dispute--/news/112964 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 future is able to read and write VFAT. Do you envision some other filesystem format achieving that status? -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Storage Systems -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
