Simplest (practical) file system?

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Mon Jul 28 13:08:49 2003

Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>
>> If you absolutely must start with a FAT system I think that
>>you should use a DOS like FAT. This makes things easy to
>>move from machine to machine. The 12 bit FAT is a little clumsy
>>so I'd suggest the 16 bit as the easier to deal with.
>
>
> FAT16 is limited to 4G
>
> But DOS and Win9x limits it to 2147483647 (NTx permits 4G).
> The 2G limitation is due to the use of signed long ints in places that
> should have an UNSIGNED long int. Because of that, it can have files with
> a NEGATIVE size!

Now is a good time to back up your system. AND MAKE SURE THE BACK UP WORKS!
Received on Mon Jul 28 2003 - 13:08:49 BST