Subject: Re: FAT filesystem conformance on the installation floppy disks
To: Pierre Pronchery <khorben@defora.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/2007 01:36:16
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:15:01AM +0100, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> 	Dear port-i386,
> 
> I am currently writing a tool to assist the analysis of firmware images
> [1], and as part of this I thought it would be adequate to implement
> detection of FAT filesystems.
> 
> I know that, given the history of the format, the FAT "standard" hardly
> matters. However, I think it would be better to give whoever potential
> new user running foo-knows-what OS a better chance to read the disk
> properly.

Uh.  What makes you think these are FAT filesystems, exactly?

Thor