Fwd: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] remove UMSDOS

[Paweł Sikora]

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Subject: Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] remove UMSDOS
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>UMSDOS in 2.6 is broken, and it seems no one needs
>it enough to bother fixing it.

Once upon a time, everyone using any Microsoft OS used FAT, but with the
proliferation of Windows 2000 and XP, NTFS is becoming much more
common.  (And note that Windows folks most likely to benefit from a
mechanism like UMSDOS are also more likely to be using NTFS rather than
FAT.) At the same time, the need to run Linux on a system with all the disc
space allocated for Windows is being met by Knoppix, VMware, and similar
techniques rather than the relative kludge of actually installing Linux on
a FAT filesystem. The days of UMSDOS are behind us.

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czy ktos w pld ma zamiar sie zajac umsdos-em,
czy wylaczamy ten niedzialajacy fragment ?

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