[LMB] AKICOTL: Technical question OT:

[Mark Allums]

Peter H. Granzeau wrote:
> At 11:23 PM 1/23/2008, Mark Allums wrote:
>> I would have preferred for Microsoft to have used better judgment in
>> making these rules, but we are stuck with their decisions.  A modern
>> file system without archaic limits, but user-friendly, appears to be too
>> much to ask for.
> 
> I think that at the time XP was being written, its limits were 
> considered to be huge amounts of overkill.  Unfortunately, technology 
> overtook the limitations of the OS long before anyone expected.

I am referring to the limits of FAT32.  NTFS has generous limits for a 
32-bit OS, though they have had to extend the two-terabyte file size 
limit in the enterprise server editions of Windows.

Apparently we can have user-friendly (almost) with FAT32, or fewer 
limits with NTFS, but not both.

--Mark Allums