To beat this ad-nauseum.. >From wikipedia fat entry:
"Finally in November 1987, Compaq DOS 3.31 introduced what is today called the FAT16 format, with the expansion of the 16-bit disk sector index to 32 bits." The fat32 section states: "Microsoft decided to implement a newer generation of FAT, known as FAT32, with cluster values held in a 32-bit field, of which 28 bits are used to hold the cluster number, for a maximum of approximately 268 million (228) clusters. This would allow for drive sizes of up to 8 tebibytes with 32KiB clusters, but the boot sector uses a 32-bit field for the sector count, limiting volume size to 2TiB on a hard disk with 512 byte sectors." But really this amounts to an excuse to explain why they called it fat32, which was really a marketing decsion. No doubt if one were to dig into the wiki logs the person who explained this probally edited other M$ related entires. (caffine induced paranoia? Possibly..) The core explanation being that M$ sucks. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Pfeiffer Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:30 PM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: RE: microSD support Crane, Matthew writes: >Yea, I got the 32 number from another wikipedia page, I didn't infer it >from the name. I don't think it has much really to do with 32bits >either for that matter, likely the "32" was entirely a marketing >distinction. No, the 32 means that the FAT entries are 32 bits (in contrast to the earlier FAT aka FAT12 and FAT16 filesystems). >But that doesn't matter, the important thing here is that Micro$oft >sucks. That's a separte issue :) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community