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Story: Microsoft wins final FAT battle
Posted by: Roan Kattouw (Thursday 12 January 2006, 2:54 PM)
Samba does NOT use FAT. There are FAT drivers in the Linux kernel, so that you can read hard disk partitions that are formatted in FAT. This is useful on a dual-boot system (Windows and GNU/Linux on 1 machine). However, XP and NT can also use NTFS, which isn't patent-encumbered (yet?), but write support for NTFS is very fragile at the moment (but they're working on it). When those FAT drivers are removed from the Linux kernel, nothing is wrong (except that you won't be able to read FAT partitions anymore). Samba uses SMB, a protocol that Windows uses to communicate over a network. SMB is also not patent-encumbered.
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Story: Microsoft wins final FAT battle
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No, no, 10 million? OK! Matt Webber -
Well, that's what happens when you have Non-e... cirilo bernardo -
So, the result may appear to be that if you have a... Tee
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Samba does NOT use FAT. There are FAT drivers... Roan Kattouw -
I stand corrected.
I still stand by "dit... Tee -
I used to work on hard disk file management routin... Steve B
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Oh what a glorious day! This is the best thing to... Jon Tyler
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The FAT file system is not that great anyway. Fil... Red Barchetta
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This will be unfortunate if this affects FAT3... Anonymous
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