FullFAT Sparks New Development

FullFAT Sparks New Development

Ok I’ve been pressing on with the FullFAT development, suddenly I realised, FullFAT should just be a File System driver, and absolutely nothing else.

It should not be aware of how partitions work, it should not even know about mounting partitions, for that is the job of a Mass Storage Device manager.

For this reason, I shall be creating a new project, a Mass Storage Device Manager. This will deal with mouting partitions etc. Essentially FullFAT now becomes a plugin, of the MSD manager.

This means, that other file-system types can be easily integrated.

I am aware that some developers require a very minimal system, and only a fat driver on a single partition based disk is needed. As such, FullFAT will be configurable for such a mode of operation.

However the MSD will be very small, and simple. Providing management of multiple devices, multiple paritions, including extended partitions, and provide the usual application interface for C and other languages.

If required, FullFAT will be easily incorporated into current systems that already have a MSD manager.

More details coming soon.

James