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SubjectRe: CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES regressions

On Sunday 2009-07-12 13:21, Jörn Engel wrote:
>[ Ignoring all legal and moral aspects...]
>
>On Fri, 10 July 2009 22:40:14 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>
>> Microsoft having patents on their *obsolete* filesystem should be *their*
>
>FAT is far from obsolete. It is practically always the filesystem of
>choice and often the only filesystem when trying to move data from one
>system to another. The next best alternatives are isofs and ext2. And
>I don't know a single digital camera, mp3 player or cellphone that
>speaks either.

The next best would probably be UDF, which is already used on DVDs
and thus is implemented in a number of devices - though probably
only disc-reading ones.
There's your market hole, dear vendors.
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