-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-03-09 20:38, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:02:07 +0100, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
No, ExFAT is patented technology,
MS also has some patents regarding FAT.
The patents protecting exfat are stronger. They learnt from their previous mistakes. It will avoid SUSE from distributing it.
And no, it doesn't have any merit besides being easy to implement. What do you expect from a file system that was part of Quick and Dirty Operating System and then renamed to DOS while reinterpreting the 'D'?
It has the merit that is very easy to code, with very small cpu requirements, and is already supported universally. If I recall correctly, the new standard bios booting system, uefi, requires a FAT partition on the boot disk on which the boot code is placed, so you are going to see FAT for many years ahead. >:-P
you will not see it that often.
You will, as any SDXD card carries it and the number of devices that support CF is rapidly shrinking.
I really hope not. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9aYbQACgkQIvFNjefEBxrY2wCgsu0FoRT4ft2UPIurWmj4+8ya EEQAn2BCdtFHBhPJPg3cEaZftMOpVxJR =TY5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org