On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > Is linux kernel vfat support compatible with the vfat32 from the > > microsoft recent OEM WIN95 release? > > I would strongly doubt it. vfat used to be just a superset of the fat > filesystem so it was too difficult to add support. vfat32, on the > otherhand, is a big jump considering the fact that most dos utilities > won't work with it either.
No, vfat does not give FAT32 capability. It is a superset of the FAT filesystem (having nothing to do with the FAT itself really: it fiddles the directory entries). FAT32 is being worked on, I did see a message to this effect in c.o.l.dev. -- William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network, New Brunswick, Canada Copyright 1996 William Burrow This line left intentionally blank. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
