Herbert Graf wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 07:09 +0100, Tamas Rudnai wrote:
>> I do not understand btw why do they use FAT filesystem nowadays. You
>> have to pay to Microsoft, plus the filesystem itself is rubbish
>> based on 20 year old technology with no recovery option. People
>> should start using a modern journaling filesystem for these large
>> flash disks. 
> 
> Name one? What journaling filesystem would you use that gives the
> benefits of FAT32, without paying Mickeysoft? 
>
> [...]
>
> Frankly, FAT works very well for flash cards. 

It's been a long time, but IIRC there were quite a number of tools
around to do semi-automated recovery on FAT/FAT32 disks back in the
days. They should still be out there. 

Gerhard
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