fun with SD cards

[Jordan Crouse]

On 06/12/06 07:48 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> I will probably get piled-on for saying this, but in my experience, 
> plain FAT filesystems work well for removable media.  FAT was originally 
> designed for removable media (floppy disks), which is not the case for 
> ext2.  I routinely use a couple of USB keys to transfer stuff between my 
> host system and OLPC boards.  The ext2/3 has needed to be reformatted 
> several times, whereas the FAT one is still using the factory format.

I agree - I normally use FAT for those reasons as well.  Plus its way more
portable to other operating systems.  For better or worse, FAT seems to be
the 'universal' filesystem that everybody talks.

Jordan