I understand the recent M$ issue with the DOS FS is the defense of their patent for long filename support. For the embedded stuff I do, long filename support is something that I can live without.
A couple of projects ago, on a different processor, I found and updated a public domain DOS file system by Philip Erdelsky. We used it with a CompactFlash card but the lower interface of the package just needs read & write sector routines. If anyone is interested, let me know. -Bill Knight R O SOftWare On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:17:08 +0100, Georg Ritter wrote: ... > >>do you write FAT filesystem or a custom format and is your code open >>source? > > At present there is no filesystem, it just writes 512 byte blocks, but > it skips the first one. If I need a fs, I I'll probably use romfs, found > on linux. Hi, I heard some rumours that M$ is going to change their attitude to the usage of FAT. It seems they want to turn down everything/everyone that does not pay for a licence in future. I was loooking into the MMC part too, and therefore was looking for a suitable fs. It should be free and easier to write. But it should also be somehow read/write-able by various OSes. Did really find anything yet.
