Hello, Am Sonntag, 25. Januar 2009 schrieb Fernando Martins: > I got a new SD card. Which file system is the best? > > In general, vfat or ext2 are the most recommended. > > Vfat might already be the fs in your card when you got a new one. It has > the advantage of being recognised in many other systems. The data
...if this is needed. (the FR uSD card slot is quite difficult to access and if USB 1.1/WLAN/Bluetooth is not too slow many people might prefer to leave the uSD card there most time...) [...] > ext is Linux centric but one of the most tested and tuned. It is also a > faster file system than vfat (citation?) and most importantly, if you > need, it supports permissions, which vfat doesn't. What about the support for owners/groups, (symbolic/hard) links and device files? And the Linux vfat seems to have problems with filenames containing colons, see http://lists.kde.org/?l=kdepim-users&m=123210608518115&w=2 where someone did a "Backup" copy of his maildir files to vfat and didn't notice that the destination directories where emty... For me vfat was therefore always a makeshift/stopgap/... for a data exchange with the Windows etc world, but not a competitive Linux alternative and not "most recommended". Good night Martin Bernreuther -- _________________________________________ Martin Bernreuther martinb...@web.de _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community