On Sunday 2012-08-19 15:34, Dan Luedtke wrote: >I analyzed about 600k file stored on various removable storage devices. >80 volunteers sent in data about their devices, generated by a program >(windows) and scripts (linux, bsd, osx) I wrote for that purpose. The >data shows that people use more complex filesystems as soon as they are >confronted with problems (mostly the 4GB limit). After that they have >problems getting their data accessed by other systems. I derived from >that, that we need a filesystem that is so simple that even unpopular >operating systems can implement it without having their business plan >explode.
Those unpopular OSes do not care about *any other* filesystem at all. The only way to get a filesystem accepted is by making an ISO standard out of it - or something in that direction - *and* use it thoroughly in products, like UDF. Even then, support for new revisions of UDF has been rather slow-coming. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
