Ouch!

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:24, 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).
> 
> I'd like to see an open format make it, but I'm not sure there are
> any on the horizon.

Why not use something like UFS or even ext2?   Probably not as light
weight as FAT but should be usable.