Sony Beefs up FAT for Consumer Devices

An anonymous reader points to a report at LinuxDevices which says that "Sony has created an enhanced version of the vFAT filesystem that it says works better in Linux-based consumer electronic devices with removable USB mass storage devices. Unlike vFAT, the xvFAT filesystem will not induce a kernel panic if a USB storage device is removed during a write operation, Sony says," and writes "For now, xvFAT is a patch to the Linux 2.4.20 source tree maintained by CELF, an industry group of consumer electronics giants working to improve Linux for CE devices. Sony intends to submit the filesystem for inclusion in the mainstream 2.6 Linux tree as well."

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Just trolling, ignore me.

[LittleBigLui]

But will you be able to cp stuff off that filesystem or is it write-only?

Sony Beef Fat?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this a delicious new foodstuff?

Re:Still won't buy Sony products.

[poopdeville]

Oh come now... xvFAT is amazing it will- - optimize seamless communities - generate vertical e-services - everage synergistic convergence and best of all - engage e-business content Perfect solution