fun with SD cards

David Zeuthen davidz at redhat.com
Wed Dec 6 16:46:55 EST 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 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.  

Also, using FAT is the right answer because it doesn't write uid/gid
information which is actually a useful feature for removable media as
you may have different uid's on different hosts.

     David





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