On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > > floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux > > manpage... > > FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed > for). Ext2 isn't.
ext2 does fine with floppies, it has a little more overhead than DOS, but it also has proper filenames. The problem is that hardly anybody uses ext2 as a floppy format, everyone uses DOS, so that is the default :} Most Linux systems have networking, whereas many DOS systems do not; if a network is available, why use a floppy?
