On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:48:08AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: ........ > I will probably get piled-on for saying this, but in my experience, > plain FAT filesystems work well for removable media. FAT was originally > designed for removable media (floppy disks), which is not the case for > ext2. I routinely use a couple of USB keys to transfer stuff between my > host system and OLPC boards. The ext2/3 has needed to be reformatted > several times, whereas the FAT one is still using the factory format.
I agree FAT certainly seems to work well with USB/flash devices. I just have one small worry, are there any concerns about patent issue for use of FAT file-systems? -- This e-mail was created by voice dictation using Dragon's NaturallySpeaking. There may be errors, omissions, or additions present. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
