> > The problem is the cluster size. In the current implementation it is limited
> > to 16k, but MSDOS supports and uses cluster sizes up to 32k to support
> > partition sizes of nearly 2 GB (32k * 0xffef to be exact).
> 
> Is this because of some brokenness in the MS-DOS file system code, or
> is this just a side-effect of the fact that MAXBSIZE is (bogusly, in
> my opinion; see PR 1718, which, along with my previous comments on the
> matter, appears to have been largely ignored) only 16k?

It's the latter.
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