Initial F2FS File-System Results Are Impressive

Greg Kroah-Hartman : http://plus.google.com/u/0/111049168280159033135/posts/fmGmQ...

... Far more important for obvious reasons. Mostly to break the lock-in that MS has on flash and other removable drives. Also, there better be a version for Windows supported on by other OEMs/manufacturers/vendors of such devices and not only by Samsung.

Perhaps, but most users will continue to use whatever OEMs format the flash drive with. You need the vendors en masse to pick up F2FS for it to take hold.

I actually prefer to use Linux native filesystems on my flash drives. If one is lost or stolen the masses who use Windows won't be able to read the data, at least.

Quoting:You need the vendors en masse to pick up F2FS for it to take hold.

When Google gets it into Android and releases a version for Windows, I think many of those OEMs will make F2FS formated drives available, especially when it is superior to exFAT.

Assuming Microsoft doesn't find ways to "discourage" use of F2FS...

Quoting:Assuming Microsoft doesn't find ways to "discourage" use of F2FS...

That depends on how much leverage they have with the various vendors. They have lots of leverage over system vendors. I'm not so sure how much they have over storage vendors.

Quoting:Assuming Microsoft doesn't find ways to "discourage" use of F2FS...

The only way MS could do that is if it enhances or replaces exFAT with a better FS for flash storage. They are too busy now trying to get into smart phones, tablets and selling Windows 8. I am not sure they want to spend any resources on such a small revenue generator.

If F2FS is to be superior as planned, storage OEMs will use it as a marketing selling point.