10.04 and USB 3.0

[Chris Robinson]

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From: Benjamin Donald-Wilson <benjamin.donald.wilson.k at gmail.com>
To: agora at justemail.net
Cc: Ubuntu <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
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
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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