ext? as fat or ntfs?

[der.hans]

Am 18. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Lisa Kachold so:

> Not sure what you are trying to do, but pendrive installations use
> Fat32 which is supported under both Linux and Windows.

Well, FAT partitions suck, they're patent encumbered and according to
m$ they're not allowed to work under Linux unless we pay extortion
money. They need to go away.

I think the m$ patent claims won't hold up to scrutiny, but why fight to
keep something that sucks? Instead, let's come up with a way to support
free and open filesystems everywhere and get them to be the default.

I just format my thumb drives to ext$something, but I don't have to worry
about being able to use them on windows boxen.

Most people do need that ability. Let's give them unencumbered
filesystems. If we do this right everyone will be able to use partitions
we associate with Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris and most anything else.

Heck, if we can get FUSE working on windows without needing a kernel
driver that would be absolutely outstanding :).

ciao,

der.hans
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