On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, James Gray wrote:
> Kevin Waterson wrote:
> > MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system
> > FAT is used by camera manufacturers and more importantly is
> > used on Compact Flash cards used by digital cameras.
> >
> > http://www.dpreview.com/news/0312/03120403microsoftisfat.asp
> >
> > enjoy
> > Kevin
>
> Maybe I'm over-simplifying things but the way I see it the feature set
> for a solid-state (small-ish) media is something along the lines of
> cramfs or one of those other minimalist open-source formats etc.
> Assuming manufacturers could agree on a format (yeh, big "IF"...can
> anyone say "DVD write/rewrite formats"??) the code required to write a
> winblows driver to suit would be relatively small. Cut M$ out, get rid
> of that shitty FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 format, raise awareness of OSS
> etc....everyone wins!
>
> But like I said, I may be over-simplifying it :)
I like your idea and, of course, microsoft are going to include it in
their upgrades & later releases & cut themselves out of million$.
Yeah I know... the camera suppliers can supply the drivers.... but for
which version of windows, which ones conflict with other cameras ... oh
what fun for mom-n-pop out there.
P.S. cramfs probably not the best choice, not made for writing files
really. It's great for read-only filesystems though.
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