Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sunday 2009-07-12 13:21, Jörn Engel wrote: > >[ Ignoring all legal and moral aspects...] > > > >On Fri, 10 July 2009 22:40:14 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> > >> Microsoft having patents on their *obsolete* filesystem should be *their* > > > >FAT is far from obsolete. It is practically always the filesystem of > >choice and often the only filesystem when trying to move data from one > >system to another. The next best alternatives are isofs and ext2. And > >I don't know a single digital camera, mp3 player or cellphone that > >speaks either. > > The next best would probably be UDF, which is already used on DVDs > and thus is implemented in a number of devices - though probably > only disc-reading ones. > There's your market hole, dear vendors. UDF has already been mentioned on this thread, next to "looks usable in theory, now try it and find out it isn't". -- Jamie -- 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