Re: Replacing VFAT as filesystem on removeable media

From: Alejandro Riveira FernÃndez
Date: Sun Apr 05 2009 - 09:31:07 EST


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

> 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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