All the more reason to use alternative file systems:
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/9265
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/9265
MS: Yeah, we Phat
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Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
I would say the FAT file system is pretty well dead.
Bozo :mrgrn:
Bozo :mrgrn:
Tannin
Storage? I am Storage!
On computers per se, yes. But it is very widely used on peripheral and quasi-computer devices. The obvious example is digital cameras: every digital camera made today (so far as I know) uses FAT and/or FAT32.
But hoolie doolie, who are they kidding? It's not like there is anything particularly clever about FAT. It's a very, very simple and obvious way of formating a drive with no particular technical merit. The only advantage FAT has over any of a milion other simple brute-force file systems is that it is practically universal. This, in other words, is a very, very clear case of Microsoft abusing monopoly power. This is as ugly and as unethical and probably as illegal as any of the bad things they have done in the past.
But hoolie doolie, who are they kidding? It's not like there is anything particularly clever about FAT. It's a very, very simple and obvious way of formating a drive with no particular technical merit. The only advantage FAT has over any of a milion other simple brute-force file systems is that it is practically universal. This, in other words, is a very, very clear case of Microsoft abusing monopoly power. This is as ugly and as unethical and probably as illegal as any of the bad things they have done in the past.
Some more info:
http://www.out-law.com/page-6524
Seems like the patent review process is a little on the crappy side.
http://www.out-law.com/page-6524
Seems like the patent review process is a little on the crappy side.
Gilbo
Storage is cool
I'd like to think that all the makers of flash-using devices will switch to ext2. There are drivers for every major OS, and the fs is well-proven and free. Somehow though, I think we'll all be footing the bill for our crappy patent systems, and the lazy hardware vendors.
FSCK!
FSCK!