Ouch!

[John Summerfied]

Ian Malone wrote:

> 
> 
> Are there many viable alternatives about?  FAT has the advantages of
> being quite simple and fairly lightweight in processor power and speed
> for small filesystems, and most device manufacturers are already used
> to licensing technologies.  Alternatively they could just revert to
> 8.3 support for files, it wouldn't affect usb key applications as
> windows is handling the file system then (but it's a blow to
> interoperability, USB keys wouldn't work between Win and Mac or Linux).

My camera does 8.3. At present I'm using a 512 Mb card; I don't know 
what happens if I go bigger, what's the next size limit that matters to FAT?

> I'd like to see an open format make it, but I'm not sure there are
> any on the horizon.
> 

If they're allergic to GPL, there are some BSD filesystems to choose from.



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