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Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12

From "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.lang.asm, alt.os.development
Subject Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12
Date 2016-04-02 20:02 -0400
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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"Rod Pemberton" wrote:
> "Robert Wessel" wrote:
>
>> What's to prevent a defrag from moving the root
>> directory?  What's to prevent the OS from extending the
>> root directory, and then putting the >> directory entry
>> for a file you're interested in after the 16th cluster
>> of the root directory file?  What's to prevent the OS
>> from putting a file (in the root directory) into a
>> cluster past #2048 on the partition?  Or extending a
>> file to a cluster>2048?  Or having defrag move it there?
>
> This seems to be intended more for ease of filesystem
> setup and access for primitive OSes,

Hi Rod,

Your're absolutely right.

> instead of 100% compatibility with FAT32 capable OSes
> like Linux or Windows.

But, the Virtual Partition is fully 100% compatible with the
MS FAT32 specification (including Linux and Windows).


Mike Gonta
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The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 17:51 -0400
  Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-31 20:48 -0500
    Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 06:50 -0400
      Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-01 11:06 -0500
        Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 13:45 -0400
          Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-01 17:06 -0500
            Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 23:16 +0100
              Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-01 17:29 -0500
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-01 20:24 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-02 00:10 -0500
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-02 12:03 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 20:19 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 20:08 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 20:02 -0400
                Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 19:55 -0400
              Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 19:30 -0400
            Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 18:55 -0400
              Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2016-04-04 00:40 -0500
  Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-04-01 09:20 +0200
    Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 07:01 -0400
      Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-04-04 10:42 +0200
        Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 15:58 -0400
          Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2016-04-05 22:19 +0200
            Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-05 18:24 -0400
  Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 09:55 +0100
    Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 07:11 -0400
  Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm> - 2016-04-01 20:24 -0400
    Re: The Virtual Partition - say goodbye to FAT12 "Mike Gonta" <mikegonta@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 21:30 -0400

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