On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 10:56, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 05:38:33AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > MS is set to begin charging a license fee for FAT file system > > FAT is used by camera manufacturers and more importantly is > > used on Compact Flash cards used by digital cameras. > > Don't know why. It's utterly shite for flash memory, since FAT keeps > hammering the same sections of the device, and flash has a limited number of > write cycles before it dies. JFFS2 is much nicer, I'm told.
Because FAT is supported by windows, so the cards can be plugged into standard flash readers to extract the images - without needing to write a custom windows driver. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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