>
>As ZFS does not have the limits of FAT/FAT32 and is also open source, could
>it be proposed to the makers of digitial devices like camera, usb memory
>manufacturers, router manufacturers, etc as a way of eliminating the FAT
>licensing yoke. This of course would require drivers to be available for 
>Windows
>to allow read/write access and also speed up the time it makes the disk
>available for use.

There are many reasons why this doesn't fly:

        - First of all you will need to build away to easily, automatically
          import and export removable ZFS pools

        - Installed base (windows, USB, cameras)

        - "pcfs" uses about 1/10 of the code needed for support zfs and
          it doesn't need as much memory as zfs does.

        - Microsoft owns pcfs, so there's no point for them to change
          windows

        - Porting a filesystem is a lot more difficult.


Casper

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