[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.
>> Apparently we can have user-friendly (almost) with FAT32, or fewer
>> limits with NTFS, but not both.
> 
> FAT32 predates XP by years.  Once again, keep in mind when  things 
> were developed.
> 
> I suppose the reason XP insists on FAT32 for external drives is that 
> external drives were much smaller in dose dem dere daze.

What I am saying is that is is an either/or option.  I am calling for a 
third option.  Someone, Microsoft, hopefully, should develop a file 
system for just such applications as we have been cussing and 
disscussing.  Something optimized for portable, quick connect and 
disconnect, devices.  Of course, that already exists, it's called ISO: 
9660, with Joliet extensions.  I would like to use a USB drive a bit 
like a high capacity plastic disc, e.g., CD, DVD, BD, HD-DVD, etc. 
Someone ought to match up the interfaces with some software, and I think 
that would become a popular choice.  I would do it myself, if I knew 
what I was doing, but while I can do systems programming, I know diddly 
about file systems, other than an advanced COBOL course I took decades 
ago for IBM Mainframes.  Not immediately applicable.

--Mark Allums