<div dir="ltr"><div>Just to chime in, as has been already noted the max file size on a FAT32 system is 4GB. Some of the files we deal with are much larger than that. Ex. the Zim files for TED talks etc. are 8GB+ in size. Now we could always break them into smaller chunks, but that is another step. <br><br>--<br></div>Anish<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:44 AM, James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:24:23PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote:<br>
> On balance, SD Card industry standard exFAT seems (to me) more<br>
> future-proof for a hassle-free "grassroots content" partition over<br>
> coming years,<br>
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If you're able to control the desktops and laptops that will be used<br>
to add or remove content, sure, but exFAT is quite recent as far as<br>
remote villages are concerned; what will you do when you get teachers<br>
who can't even open it? Any systems with unpatched XP or Vista will<br>
be affected. Any Mac earlier than 10.6.5 too.<br>
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James Cameron<br>
<a href="http://quozl.linux.org.au/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.linux.org.au/</a><br>
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