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Story: Microsoft wins final FAT battle
Posted by: Jon Tyler (Friday 13 January 2006, 2:03 PM)
Oh what a glorious day! This is the best thing to happen to portable media in a long time.
Many people have been tired of the 4GB file size limit on portable drives for a long time. FAT is pretty much dead on anything over 120GB.
/IF/ M$ starts pushing licensing fees, many vendors are going to start looking for a free solution; even one that may require the installation of a filesystem driver. EXT2 and EXT3 (for drive based media) are perfect for this sort of usage. Stable, Reliable, Open. Vendors will be looking for exactly this.
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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
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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 -
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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