----- Original Message ---- From: Benjamin Donald-Wilson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Ubuntu <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 26 April, 2011 9:59:51 AM Subject: Re: 10.04 and USB 3.0
Hi Dave, I would use the exFAT format because by the sounds of it your using it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't use exfat! It's a closed source, proprietory, licensable format from Micky Soft. That's the reason there's no way to format or use it properly. If Microsoft were as interested in Desktop compatibility as they like to make out in the press blurb, they wouldn't have made it a licensable filesystem. Nothing goes against what Linux and FOSS is about more than a closed source filesystem. I will ignore the existence of exfat until such a time as it is impossible to do so. I certainly will not go out of my way to actually format something with it. Microsoft let FAT32 and NTFS get away from them, expect them to make exfat (FAT64 iow) even more closed and difficult for anyone who wants to implement it. I believe the basic license for an implementation is US$300,000, and I doubt that would include Canonical or Linus Torvolds. Most of my small (and not so small) portable devices are formatted ext2. There's a completely free and open source driver for ext2 that works fine under Windows. Chris -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
