Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] remove UMSDOS

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <6.1.1.1.0.20040711120748.041c8e60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Jeff Woods <Kazrak+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> At 7/11/2004 01:28 PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >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.
> 

Realistically I think it's VFAT that killed it.

	-hpa
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