Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jul 2004 12:17:32 -0600 | From | Jeff Woods <> | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] remove UMSDOS |
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At 7/11/2004 01:28 PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >UMSDOS in 2.6 is broken, and it seems no one needs it enough to bother >fixing it.
Once upon a time, everyone using any Microsoft OS used FAT, but with the proliferation of Windows 2000 and XP, NTFS is becoming much more common. (And note that Windows folks most likely to benefit from a mechanism like UMSDOS are also more likely to be using NTFS rather than FAT.) At the same time, the need to run Linux on a system with all the disc space allocated for Windows is being met by Knoppix, VMware, and similar techniques rather than the relative kludge of actually installing Linux on a FAT filesystem. The days of UMSDOS are behind us.
-- Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net>
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