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Originally Posted by [Knuckles] View Post
Hello.
First post here, hope I don't step on any bear traps

I've been playing with using UDF instead of fat32/ntfs/ext234/whatever on my flash devices and external hard drives, since it's a filesystem that
a) has read-write support in linux and windows (7, I think XP doesn't like it) without extra software
b) is better than fat because it supports large files
c) is better than ntfs because it supports unix semantics (and for full ntfs on linux you need ntfs-3g and fuse)

Some more info:
http://serverfault.com/questions/550...d-drive-as-udf
http://superuser.com/questions/39942...sb-flash-drive

Anyway, UDF is listed as being supported by kernel-power, but at first it didn't work for me.
I then discovered that this fix is "needed":
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kern...1d4d4b9781a555
Quoting from stackexchange:
Code:
Linux with an older kernel: needs the bs=512 option to mount, because it incorrectly used 2048 instead of the device sector size (fixed in commit 1197e4d).
Would it be possible for this patch to be included in KP?

Thanks for all your work!
UDF support in Maemo should be usefull also for USB host mode. Patch is in upstream kernel so I can try it to backport to kernel-power...
 

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