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TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw)TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw)Posted Apr 2, 2009 16:10 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525)In reply to: TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw) by cantsin Parent article: TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw)
You can format USB storage devices with whatever Linux filesystems you like. Or, when it matters, even NTFS. However, to get "the FAT out", it also requires parties like digital cameras to cooperate. Since it's not the Linux desktop users who get sued over FAT, but the device makers (cameras, navigation, etc.), this is the right place. Get the FAT out of these devices, use a file system like ext2, where an Windows IFS driver exists, or one where a driver is already implemented in Windows, like UDF. This might even make Microsoft happy, because to write UDF, you need Vista; previous versions could only read it (maybe third parties could get their act together and write a writing UDF IFS for Windows XP, and put it on the driver CDs supplied with the cameras - or even on the SD cards itself, since reading is possible, anyways. Plus an autorun.inf, so that it installs itself without user interactions...
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