linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS

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Date:	Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:27:09 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
cc:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>,
	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	tridge@...ba.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, john.lanza@...ux.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, jcm@...masters.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions


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.
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