Messages in this thread |  | | From | Zefram <> | Subject | Re: Microsoft FAT 32. | Date | Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:42:27 +0100 (BST) |
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>But imagine your "secure" data in your home dir under NT being readable by >everybody than boots up this DOS kernel...
Can we say "security through obscurity", boys and girls?
Actually, the FAT 32 as described upthread seems perfectly reasonable to me. It's the obvious extension of FAT to 32-bit cluster numbers, which should have happened five years ago. Okay, it still has the fundamental flaws of FAT, but by making just this change it's possible to avoid requiring really extensive changes to FAT-reading programs, including DOS itself.
-zefram
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