Heck, plugging 3 giant USB FAT32 drives into any machine isn't exactly a common thing.
Works well enough on my decidedly ungrunty eeePC (and my oldish Linux machines). Apple's also confirmed it's still an issue on their latest PPC G5 kit.
FAT32 is kinda crappy and unreliable all on its own, regardless of platform.
It's the highest common denominator as far as cross-platform supported filesystems go, unfortunately.
I gather the issue's been sorted out in FreeBSD (where Apple sourced its mount_msdos code, but, Apple hasn't bothered updating its port. Sort of like how Apple dragged its heels updating BIND9 despite intense public pressure, but, there's no particular pressure on this issue... so they likely won't bother until it becomes an embarrassment. 1G external drives are becoming commonplace, so I'd expect it to grow in impact as time goes on.
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Date: 2008-09-11 03:10 (UTC)Works well enough on my decidedly ungrunty eeePC (and my oldish Linux machines). Apple's also confirmed it's still an issue on their latest PPC G5 kit.
FAT32 is kinda crappy and unreliable all on its own, regardless of platform.
It's the highest common denominator as far as cross-platform supported filesystems go, unfortunately.
I gather the issue's been sorted out in FreeBSD (where Apple sourced its mount_msdos code, but, Apple hasn't bothered updating its port. Sort of like how Apple dragged its heels updating BIND9 despite intense public pressure, but, there's no particular pressure on this issue... so they likely won't bother until it becomes an embarrassment. 1G external drives are becoming commonplace, so I'd expect it to grow in impact as time goes on.