This doesn't belong on Freedos-user then.
Maybe Czerno / Bertho is not on freedos-devel?
Then they should subscribe to it.
Or maybe there is
simply too little traffic on freedos-devel, so he preferred to
give it a try on freedos-user... I am CCing -devel here,
I'm keeping -user as the
NOTE: Transformation of sector sizes is easiest in FAT32.
Other FAT sizes may take more effort.
I don't think so. Why would they? Cluster size stays the same, no
FAT-related special handling (which would be more complicated for, say,
FAT12) is necessary as far as I can tell.
Sorry for
Another additional note, as I went thinking about this a bit. Only
cluster values are stored in the FS (think FAT contents, FSINFO, and
start cluster fields of directory entries) apart from what is in the
*BPB, so a runtime upwards sector size transformation (say, from 512 B
to 4 KiB,
Hi Chris,
NOTE: Transformation of sector sizes is easiest in FAT32.
Other FAT sizes may take more effort.
You're probably referring to the root directory alignment handling,
which of course is not needed in FAT32 as its root directory is not
in a specifically reserved area.
Correct - in
Correct - in FAT32, the root directory is just a group of data
clusters. In FAT12 and FAT16, you specify the size of the root
directory instead. However, the size is specified in entries,
not sectors, so maybe you are right: FAT12 / FAT16 COULD be as
EASY to transform as FAT32.
This depends
