so no go on the sd cards then. what about thumb drives? On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Matt Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2016-01-18 08:13, Michael Havens wrote: > >> ext3 at the time (99)) was superior to FAT because instead of >> filling in the nearest open space with data when it is told to write >> it scatters the data around on the disk. [...] I was >> thinking it might be a good idea to format sd cards and thumb drives >> to ext3/ext4 for this reason. Is that a sound idea or am I mistaken? >> > > All the SD cards I've seen have FAT filesystems on them. The firmware in > cameras almost certainly can't handle anything other than FAT. Android > devices with SD slots probably expect FAT SD cards too, though they might > be able to handle ext3. > > FAT actually makes sense for removable storage in many situations, because > everything can understand it and UIDs/GIDs don't make sense for things that > can be attached to different devices. I don't think it'll be possible to > get rid of FAT for this reason. (And isn't there something called ExFAT > that SD-using devices that take cards > 32G are required to support?) > > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-:
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