Alan Cox wrote: > From the funnies we've had in the past with FAT my gut impression is > there are only a few implementations out there. Psion seems to have their > own but most of the rest behave remarkably similarly which makes me > suspect they all licensed a tiny number of implementations (DRDOS one > perhaps ?). If we can keep most of those devices mounted 8.3 we nicely > sidestep the issue anyway. >From recently witnessing someone write another FAT implementation, for an 8-bit AVR microcontroller reading SD cards, based in part on someone elses public domain FAT implementation, fixing significant bugs in that (including directory parsing), and then seeing it translated from C to hand-coded AVR assembly language to save space, with me helping teach C to the person doing it, for a commercial product which is to be released in the next couple of months, and will be updated with SD cards written by Linux and Windows... >From witnessing that, for one obscure product among millions, I'd guess there are more FAT implementations than a "few". Perhaps there aren't many VFAT implementations, but my gut says there are quite a lot of independently written 8.3-only FAT ones. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
