In message <Pine.NEB.4.33.0108101504420.2114-100000@wojtek.3miasto.net>, Wojcie
ch Puchar writes:
>> > excellent "PC-style" solution. instead of using some sort of flash
>> > designed filesystem the controller does lot of stupid job emulating normal
>> > drive and spreading writes.
>>
>> So you'd rather we have to write write this special filesystem for NetBSD,
>> and all the other free OS projects have to devote effort to the same, than
>> we just use filesystem code we've already got? That seems a bit silly.
>> Why make everybody implement something multiple times when you can just
>> implement it once at a lower level? I think this is a much better solution
>> than a custom filesystem.
>no it isn't. the software people are just too lazy in these companies
>
>
Given that most of the time when I use a CF card, I'm reading stuff 
that was put there by my camera, I don't want any non-DOS file system.  
I also use it sometimes to move data from my laptop to someone else's 
Windows or Mac machines.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb