I could write up a spec, but I don't have the time to make a full blown implementation at this point.
I hope "remain compatible with DOS" does not equal "remain compatible with FAT 12/16/32" since the implementation I was envisioning would not offer any backward compatibility. Drives formatted in this FAT version would not be able to be read by any other DOS version without a software module to do so. That sucks for compatibility zealots but, as is said, sometimes to go forwards you must first go backwards. Merc On 9/24/2015 3:47 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Mercury Thirteen > <mercury0x0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We could undercut the competition and make our own free FAT >> implementation which does fills the same niche as exFAT. >> > > I think that's a great idea! I encourage any interested developer to > write such an implementation. > > A key to success is to remain compatible with DOS, and to offer wide > support so others can merge this implementation to other systems. If > such a FAT implementation were available only on DOS, but not on Linux > or Mac or Windows, not many will adopt it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
