linux-kernel - Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media

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Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 2009 15:30:41 +0200
From:	Alejandro Riveira Fernández 
	<ariveira@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>,
	Bryan Henderson <hbryan@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media

El Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:34:50 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> escribió:

> Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >>
> >> 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?
> > 
> > That was my (possibly crazy) idea yes. ;)
> > 
> 
> Ironically enough, one of the better filesystems for being supported by
> many OSes is probably ext2.  However, that doesn't mean it is even in
> the same rough ballpark as (V)FAT.

  What about UDF ?
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
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