Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: PATCH to access old-style FAT fs | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:38:11 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <20040126173949.GA788@frodo.local> By author: Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi folks, > > I have created and attached a new version of my old-style FAT filesystem > patch, this time for the 2.6.0 kernel. It can also be found on > http://debian.frodo.looijaard.name/. > > Some old implementation of the FAT standard mark the end of the > directory file index by inserting a filename beginning with a byte 00. > All entries after it should be ignored, even though they are not marked > as deleted. At least some EPOC releases (an OS used on Psion PDAs, for > example) still use this policy. >
It's not just "old implementations" -- it's the spec.
After reaching a filename beginning with 00, no further data should be assumed to be in that filesystem. MS-DOS itself would only do that when formatting the filesystem, so *all* the subsequent entries would be assumed to start with 00, but that doesn't really seem to be to spec.
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