[ATT @ Aug 1st 2007 5:58AM]

will this mean upgrade the file system for external storage from FAT32 to something else by next year cause of the 4GB limit

[pigfister @ Aug 1st 2007 12:07PM]

its pointless but sony pr have to do somthing as its failing as a game machine because their are no games worth the high price of the ps3 atm and with exclusives drying up or just being timed exclusives what exactly is the point of a ps3?

i know.

blu-ray = drm lock down from the media mafia which is why most of the members back blu-ray and why rupert murdoch's fox and co wouldn't release any movies in hi-def until BD+ was finalised.

now that bd+ is their & sending your details back to the mafia via the "none intrusive" usage and, "security" updates giving movie and whoever else your film usage, ip address and unique serial number of your machine just waiting for you to get hold of a multi region hack so they can remote disable you player permanently.

yes i think i'll rush out now and purchase a blu-ray drive (sarcasm for the neocons)

[James @ Aug 1st 2007 1:01PM]

For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

FAT32 can do up to 2TB, not 4GB.

[Jagster @ Aug 1st 2007 1:07PM]

They don't use ext3 for the filesystem?

And Sony keeps making this less and less a game console... maybe that's their goal.. make a media player that plays a couple games to pull their fan base into buying one just to get some traction on their real goal. I feel sorry for those who dumped $600 to play 2 or 3 games.

[James @ Aug 1st 2007 1:14PM]

Oops! I thought you meant partition-size limit, which is 2GB for FAT16, but I now presume you meant file-size limit, which is of course 4GB for FAT32. Which, as you say, sucks. Workarounds would be possible, but ugly.


Of course, if they "upgrade" from FAT32, where would they go? If they choose NTFS, it's a bit of a hassle to get Linux working with it, plus it's a dreaded Microsoft taint. If they choose ext2 or ext3, it's a hassle to use the drive with a Windows box. I don't think there's One True Filesystem that they can fall back on other than FAT32...

[Anthony @ Aug 1st 2007 1:31PM]

@James

Yeah, pretty sure he meant file allocation space. And ZFS would be nice, but I know I'm dreaming. Keep in mind that FAT has far more "limitations" (see: faults) than just a small file size cap.

[shaun @ Aug 1st 2007 1:51PM]

@pigfister (wtf!?): learn to spell

[Larz @ Aug 3rd 2007 1:21PM]

Hey pigfister, are you wearing a tin foil hat?

Well, this is exciting news for me. The PS3 is a nice little multimedia unit and can be used as a PC, all for for less than the price of a Blu-Ray drive. Seems like I'm the only one who thinks this is a nifty little unit though.

I know everyone keeps bashing the PS3 and saying it has "no" games. Well, you can say the same about all new Consoles right now. I made the mistake of buying a Wii--it's a nice paperweight. The only advantage I got from that was a smaller GC which I can use to play the only 2 good games ever realeased for GC.

How about XBox you say? OK, it's got a new Halo for a bit until it gets released for PC. But am I the only one that sees Halo as just another shooter except you have to use a limiting console controller instead of keyboard/mouse? FPS's will always be a PC thing for me.