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Re: IA64 port
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Robert Millan |
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Re: IA64 port |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:19:25 +0100 |
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:23:09AM +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> 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)
Ok, I have downloaded the document without accepting their license (which is
completely legal where I live), and had a look it (or at least the part of it
that can be deciphered from MS-Office internal format).
I can't legally quote it, but it seems the requirement of case insensitivity
is present. I really think it is completely broken to describe a filesystem
structure saying, not how the data is organized, but how your implementation
must present it to the upper layer.
It is simply out of scope. Consider there was a document describing ext2 that
said /dev/zero, if present, must output an endless stream of 0xff.
> or even ECMA 107.
Also, note that neither of these qualify as "standards". The first is a
Microsoft internal document, the second is just a rubber-stamp organization.
--
Robert Millan
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- Re: IA64 port, (continued)
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port,
Robert Millan <=
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/30