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I really wish someone would come out with a BSD/MIT licensed filesystem, so anyone could use it. It wouldn't have to be the one with the most features, mainly

I really wish someone would come out with a BSD/MIT licensed filesystem, so anyone could use it. It wouldn't have to be the one with the most features, mainly simple and good at storing typical users' files. Currently, it seems FAT32 is the only thing out there that is able to be implemented without having to worry too much about patents, licenses etc (with some exceptions). The only issue is, FAT32 sucks! I have a Canon Rebel camera that can record videos, but they can only be up to 4GB because of crappy FAT32. It doesn't matter if I have a 32GB flash/CF card in there, they can still only be 4GB.

Dobbs 17y ago
There are some great BSD/MIT licensed filesystems. The BSD's UFS is as good if not better than NTFS/EXT3/HFS+. It isn't cross platform due to a combination of being complicated, each systems being slightly different and lack of market share.
- blasdel 17y ago
  You are high as a kite. UFS is more comparable to ext2, except with more data loss and not even a pretense of a stable disk format even within the same platform!
  - allenbrunson 17y ago
    that's a textbook example of one of the things pg says not to do here: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. 'That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'" http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html you often have knowledgeable things to say, but that's not enough around here.
- gaius 17y ago
  You very much underestimate NTFS if you think UFS is comparable. Regardless of what you might think about MS, NTFS is a great filesystem (and Windows doesn't even use many of its features, such as what HFS calls forks, or using OLE to make the .xxx style file extensions obsolete). Reparse points make solving certain classes of problems very easy too.
bad_user 17y ago
See the Microsoft vs TomTom lawsuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom

Dobbs 17y ago

There are some great BSD/MIT licensed filesystems. The BSD's UFS is as good if not better than NTFS/EXT3/HFS+. It isn't cross platform due to a combination of being complicated, each systems being slightly different and lack of market share.

blasdel 17y ago
You are high as a kite. UFS is more comparable to ext2, except with more data loss and not even a pretense of a stable disk format even within the same platform!
- allenbrunson 17y ago
  that's a textbook example of one of the things pg says not to do here: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. 'That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'" http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html you often have knowledgeable things to say, but that's not enough around here.
gaius 17y ago
You very much underestimate NTFS if you think UFS is comparable. Regardless of what you might think about MS, NTFS is a great filesystem (and Windows doesn't even use many of its features, such as what HFS calls forks, or using OLE to make the .xxx style file extensions obsolete). Reparse points make solving certain classes of problems very easy too.

bad_user 17y ago

See the Microsoft vs TomTom lawsuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom