Just to chime in, as has been already noted the max file size on a FAT32 system is 4GB. Some of the files we deal with are much larger than that. Ex. the Zim files for TED talks etc. are 8GB+ in size. Now we could always break them into smaller chunks, but that is another step.
-- Anish On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:44 AM, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:24:23PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote: > > On balance, SD Card industry standard exFAT seems (to me) more > > future-proof for a hassle-free "grassroots content" partition over > > coming years, > > [...] > > If you're able to control the desktops and laptops that will be used > to add or remove content, sure, but exFAT is quite recent as far as > remote villages are concerned; what will you do when you get teachers > who can't even open it? Any systems with unpatched XP or Vista will > be affected. Any Mac earlier than 10.6.5 too. > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ >
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