Re: [ros-dev] FAT Opinion

[TwoTailedFox]

FAT16 and FAT32 are only included in ReactOS for the
"Windows-Compatible" section of the "ReactOS Charter"

Thus, is worst came to worst, ReactOS would have to do one or all of
the following in the States:

1) Crack NTFS
2) Finish Implementing Ext2, and make it Default FS
3) Implement ReiserFS/Reiser 4, or another file system such as XFS, JFS

On 1/11/06, Rick Langschultz [e-mail] wrote:
> i would rather use a filesystem that was able to store things larger
> than that. What about virtual machine disks? I think that FAT32 is
> the wrong fs to be using here people.
> On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:44 AM, nitro2k01 wrote:
> > FAT32 limits file sizes to 4 GB.
> >                                     /nitro2k01
> >
> > On 1/11/06, Rick Langschultz [e-mail] wrote:
> > > The only thing i see that will allow Microsoft to use the patent
> > > for the FAT
> > > filesystem naming conventions is holding it above other operating
> > > system
> > > developer's heads. I think that FAT was never a good choice for a
> > > filesystem. If M$ does decide to get feisty ReactOS should
> > > implement a VFS
> > > for something like FAT over XFS, EXT3, or Reiser.
> > >
> > > All of these are really good at storing large amounts of data very
> > > fast. I
> > > also think that an NTFS implementation or a VFS would be a great
> > > idea.
> > >
> > > Can someone provide statistics about any of these filesystems or
> > > verify if
> > > these are able to store files larger than a certain size. I also
> > > think that
> > > FAT has a max file size limit...
> > >
> > > On Jan 11, 2006, at 5:18 AM, Murphy, Ged (Bolton) wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm reading reports of a US patent on FAT.
> > > What's going on and how will this effect us?
> > >
> > > The US patent rules are seriously out of control :(
> > >
> > > Ged
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