11 Jan
2006
11 Jan
'06
12:40 p.m.
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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