Hi Casper,
Thanks for the reply.
It would nice to have an Open Source file system format which could be
used by these electronic devices which did not require FAT.
[email protected] wrote:
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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