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

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Message-ID: <49D8510A.3010606@zytor.com>
Date:	Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:34:50 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>
CC:	Bryan Henderson <hbryan@...ibm.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media

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.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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