From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH to access old-style FAT fs
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:38:11 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bv3qb3$4lh$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040126173949.GA788@frodo.local
Followup to: <20040126173949.GA788@frodo.local>
By author: Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I have created and attached a new version of my old-style FAT filesystem
> patch, this time for the 2.6.0 kernel. It can also be found on
> http://debian.frodo.looijaard.name/.
>
> Some old implementation of the FAT standard mark the end of the
> directory file index by inserting a filename beginning with a byte 00.
> All entries after it should be ignored, even though they are not marked
> as deleted. At least some EPOC releases (an OS used on Psion PDAs, for
> example) still use this policy.
>
It's not just "old implementations" -- it's the spec.
After reaching a filename beginning with 00, no further data should be
assumed to be in that filesystem. MS-DOS itself would only do that
when formatting the filesystem, so *all* the subsequent entries would
be assumed to start with 00, but that doesn't really seem to be to
spec.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 17:39 PATCH to access old-style FAT fs Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-26 19:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-01-27 12:55 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-27 18:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-27 20:17 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-28 11:56 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-28 20:08 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-28 20:24 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-28 21:01 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-29 10:56 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-31 2:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-31 17:19 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-01-29 22:39 ` Frodo Looijaard
2004-01-29 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-30 0:30 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-30 3:40 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2004-02-01 14:51 ` Frodo Looijaard
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