Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: kernel patch support large fat partitions | Date | 5 Jan 2002 12:40:51 -0800 |
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Followup to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020104104826.03a15978@mage.qualcomm.com> By author: Vijay Kumar <jkumar@qualcomm.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Using 28bit cluster numbers and 65536 cluster size I could go upto 16TB > which is lot more than what I wanted. So right now I have no problem with > the on-disk format of a fat partition. Nevertheless with hard drives prices > going down dramatically it may not be too long before we hit the limit. > > Regards, > - Vijay >
That's Microsoft's problem -- that's a fundamental limit of the format they defined. The fact that they defined it in the first place is part of the problem (the only way you can make a FAT filesystem work *well* is by loading the entire FAT into memory ahead of time, and "FAT32" breaks that), instead of creating a more sensible replacement.
(FWIW, the reason they used to justify FAT32 was "it would be too much work to make DOS handle NTFS", as if those were the only options...)
-hpa
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