On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:48:29PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: [...] > AFAIK, there's no standard specifiing FAT, only a few implementations that act > de-facto as a "reference". Because of this, it is up to us to decide what is > "standard" and what is just an OS-dependant oddity.
There are spefications from MS, eg: Microsoft Extensible Firmware Initiative FAT32 File System Specification, rev. 1.03, December 6, 2000, (http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/fatgen.mspx) or even ECMA 107. > Since the choice is arbitrary, why not choose based on the merits of each > option, rather than based on what some implementations do? Tristan. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel