On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 17:24, Ian Malone wrote: > > Are there many viable alternatives about? FAT has the advantages of > being quite simple and fairly lightweight in processor power and speed > for small filesystems, and most device manufacturers are already used > to licensing technologies. Alternatively they could just revert to > 8.3 support for files, it wouldn't affect usb key applications as > windows is handling the file system then (but it's a blow to > interoperability, USB keys wouldn't work between Win and Mac or Linux). > > I'd like to see an open format make it, but I'm not sure there are > any on the horizon. Why not use something like UFS or even ext2? Probably not as light weight as FAT but should be usable.
