Dan Cross wrote:
FAT-12? Shesh. You know, I wonder why a more reasonable filesystem format can't be found for things like this. I mean, it doesn't have to be fancy (I've often thought that a simple extent-based filesystem with an extent- based directory structure would be sufficient for, e.g., 9fat), but it doesn't have to be FAT, either.
it gets better. They also define a Flat File System (FFS) in the spec. It has functions to look up and create files, including one function to tell you if there are two files of the same name on the volume, and if so, where the many files with the same name are. I kid you not. It's one of the worst things I've ever seen.
ron
