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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:17:59 -0700
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
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On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:14:40PM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
>=20
> [...]
>=20
> > Ideally you'd like a file system that was fast, portable, and
> > maintainable.  I'm not sure all three are really feasiable unless you're
> > really careful about defining portable so the OSes in question have a
> > decent set of common VM semantics available with reasionable overhead.
> > That's not to say we can't dream or that research shouldn't be done in
> > this are, but I think we're definatly in research land here.
>=20
> Sure. I'm just surprised that this idea hasn't been researched more to da=
te.
> The current proliferation of portable storage devices is bound to generate
> critical mass for this sort of technology soon (if it hasn't already).
>=20
> I'm surprised that device manufacturers haven't sponsored this kind of
> research yet.

Since for most of them, all the word is a windows box except for a few
annoying nuts running MacOS or Linux, FAT seems to be good enough for
them. :-(

-- Brooks

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