Re: [PATCH 2.6.11.4 1/1] fs: new filesystem implementation VXEXT1.0

Jens Langner
2005-03-18T09:22:46Z

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

>>The VXEXT filesystem is more or less a FAT16 based filesystem which
>>was slightly modified by Wind River to allow the storage of more
>>than 2GB data on a partition, as well as storing filenames with a
>>maximum of 40 characters length.
>
> Can this not then be folded into the existing vfat filesystem?

Sure it can. But I thought that as the VXEXT1.0 filesystem is per
definition not a vfat filesystem it might be better to have it separated
and not drill it into the IMHO anyway overly mixed up vfat/fat code
already in the linux kernel tree. Even if that means that some parts in
the code of the vxext filesystem are probably equal to the msdos
implementation, please note that large parts which were not needed by
the vxext implementation was dropped by me for clarifications.

So I still hope that my implementation is going to be considered for a
future kernel tree integration as it may be quite usefull for embeeded
systems wanting to access VxWorks partitions.