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Re: FAT 32 question



On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

> > vfat.o uses msdos.o,which doesn't support fat32 yet. I guess we'll have
> > to wait and see...
> 
> An unofficial kernel patch exist to handle FAT32 under Linux. Alas, i do
> not remember where i got it from, but it was one of the usuall Linux
> pages - should be easy enough to find if you are the kind of brave soul
> that would put an unofficial kernel patche into your machines... ;-)

where there's a will, I want to be in it. (umm, wrong quote... NM)

I go to the official collection of unofficial patches and check:
http://www.linuxhq.com

(searching...)

last update on February 18th: http://www.linuxhq.com/patch/20-p0245.html
the 0xBEEF is at:
ftp://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/linux/fat32/fat32_joliet_nls_patch-0.2.0.gz

as you see the guy already wrote a perliminary nls code so support for
Joliet CDs was a small step after that. he calles it version 0.2.0, and
that reading is perfectly safe but until further testing is done he
doesn't recommend writing to important directories. My guess is that it's
pretty safe it it wasn't updated for such a long time...


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* Microsoft Joliet - or as one of my collegues likes to call it "Microsoft
Toilet" - is a CD format that won't be compatable with iso-9660's name or
directory scheme, used by MickeySoft to create CDs with long filenames
(I like the RR extensions idea better, but what do I know, I'm an raving
Linux zealot), which ofcourse renders the disks unreadable to ANY OS
except NT 4 and lose95.


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