[ros-dev] FAT Opinion

[TwoTailedFox]

FAT16 and FAT32 are only included in ReactOS for the
"Windows-Compatible" section of the "ReactOS Charter"

Thus, is worst came to worst, ReactOS would have to do one or all of
the following in the States:

1) Crack NTFS
2) Finish Implementing Ext2, and make it Default FS
3) Implement ReiserFS/Reiser 4, or another file system such as XFS, JFS

On 1/11/06, Rick Langschultz <rlangschultz at cox.net> wrote:
> i would rather use a filesystem that was able to store things larger
> than that. What about virtual machine disks? I think that FAT32 is
> the wrong fs to be using here people.
> On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:44 AM, nitro2k01 wrote:
>
> > FAT32 limits file sizes to 4 GB.
> >
> >                                         /nitro2k01
> >
> > On 1/11/06, Rick Langschultz <rlangschultz at cox.net> wrote:
> >> The only thing i see that will allow Microsoft to use the patent
> >> for the FAT
> >> filesystem naming conventions is holding it above other operating
> >> system
> >> developer's heads. I think that FAT was never a good choice for a
> >> filesystem. If M$ does decide to get feisty ReactOS should
> >> implement a VFS
> >> for something like FAT over XFS, EXT3, or Reiser.
> >>
> >> All of these are really good at storing large amounts of data very
> >> fast. I
> >> also think that an NTFS implementation or a VFS would be a great
> >> idea.
> >>
> >> Can someone provide statistics about any of these filesystems or
> >> verify if
> >> these are able to store files larger than a certain size. I also
> >> think that
> >> FAT has a max file size limit...
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 11, 2006, at 5:18 AM, Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm reading reports of a US patent on FAT.
> >> What's going on and how will this effect us?
> >>
> >> The US patent rules are seriously out of control :(
> >>
> >> Ged
> >>
> >>
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