[arch-dev-public] our FAT support and Microsoft

[Andreas Radke]

Am Fri, 3 Apr 2009 07:59:37 +0200 (CEST)
schrieb Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de>:

> http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2009/03/31/on-the-tomtom-settlement-microsoft-rolls-back-its-%E2%80%9Copen%E2%80%9D-promises/
> 
> I haven't done further investigations but it seems we should take care
> about keep supporting the FAT file system.
> 
> How is the state with NTFS? Is the license situation there more safe?
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> -Andy
> 

Kernel developers are working on it:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/31491/

We might think to use this option in our next kernel packages.

-Andy