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exFat #1

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 

How much work would this be?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nelixx on 15 Nov 2009 at 10:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
exFAT is actually a very different format from FAT 16/32. Although some 
characteristics and on-disk structures remain the same or similar, things like 
allocation is handled in a completely different way.

Adding exFAT support to FullFAT would be the equivalent of writing a whole new 
filesystem driver. Unfortunately Microsoft haven't released open specifications 
of 
exFAT so its not in my interest to reverse engineer it.

I'm currently writing a public domain filesystem that provides all the benefits 
of 
exFAT, except is completely open. I'll also be providing open-source 
implementations 
for Windows, Linux, and also a generic embedded driver like FullFAT.

James

Original comment by james.wa...@live.co.uk on 28 Nov 2009 at 6:29