Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media

From: Martin Steigerwald
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 04:28:40 EST


Am Donnerstag 02 April 2009 schrieb Bryan Henderson:
> > Now as TomTom appears to have surrendered to Microsoft and Microsoft
>
> seems
>
> > to have accepted this deal probably in order to not find out that
> > their patents are void, I think replacing VFAT as standard cross
> > platform filesystem on removeable media would be an even better idea
> > than before [1].
> >
> > [1]
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/TomTom-Microsoft-settle-patent-dispute--/n
>ews/112964
>
> 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. ;)

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