On 4/6/2011 2:21, Warp wrote:
>    FAT32 has a file size limit of 2GB. (Well, technically speaking the hard
> limit is 4GB, but if you exceed 2GB the system might start behaving in odd
> ways with it. At least Windows does.)

More precisely, the file size limit on the file system is 4G, and some 
implementations have bugs that limit it to 2G. :-)

>    The system not supporting formatting the external USB drive is just lazy,
> though. Almost seems like they added the support just as an afterthought,
> without investing much time on it.

Considering a FAT formatting routine is like 20 lines of C code, and if it 
supports ext3 they already *have* the formatting routine.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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