Validity of the CD size limit nowadays [Re: Features/ArchitectureSupport - changing what we build for]

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 18:10:32 -0600,
>   Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> Callum Lerwick wrote:
>>> Well, the biggest USB stick I have at the moment is 1gb, but this thread
>>> provided an excuse to order me an 8gb. I'm ready now. :) But keep in
>>> mind the FAT 4gb-1b limit. I'd happily format it NTFS if we could boot
>>> LiveUSB from NTFS. syslinux doesn't support this, but patches for GRUB
>>> apparently exist:
>> Why not format it ext2/3/4? ;-) That's what I did (and went on to use  
>> the same stick to install Cambridge on my Asus).
> 
> Because then it can't be used to transfer files to and from windows systems
> without booting from it.

http://www.fs-driver.org/

Rahul