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how many people is using fat as their file system? Iook like many

If you can dump the fat fs in bochs GUI, is it good?

I personally use FAT, I don't understand what you mean by dumping the FAT fsys into Bochs' GUI though.

*cough*bloatware*cough*

Are you planning on supporting your kitchen sink?

I wanted not only to write but also to design everyting from scratch, including the file system. As an exception, my OS supports FAT12 so I can easily access the floppy from Windows. I am still designing my own FS, though.

AUsername wrote:I personally use FAT, I don't understand what you mean by dumping the FAT fsys into Bochs' GUI though.

He means to add support for it in his peter-bochs debugger.

EDIT. There are lots of people that decided to support FAT. I will too (once I get started on the VFS), but it's mainly because I do development on Windows, and it's easy to copy/view files inside the image file I use as a virtual disk.

The number one reason to support FAT is, imho, not those obsolete floppies, but removable USB mass storage devices that come preformatted in FAT (both flash drives and memory cards like the ubiquitous SD drives). FAT32 is the de facto standard for these drives.


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Combuster wrote:*cough*bloatware*cough*

Are you planning on supporting your kitchen sink?

I like features, but I guess Combuster is right. It's like the much-used example of the IDE including an e-mail component (shouldn't be in there).

The point is, if you add too much somewhat unrelevant parts, you will eventually have to support too much and you will get distracted from the original goal. Stick to what you wanted to make originally and let other tools take over jobs like this.

@Creature: to state it more elegantly: "Do one thing well."

It would be better if you provide the ability of creating plug-ins to display debugging information. This way you are not limiting yourself to one filesystem. You can even provide special functionality through the plug-in API as well. (I can only see something like this being useful for filesystems not supported by the host OS though..)

To answer your question though, I do use FAT as well only because I dont have the need for another filesystem at this time.

thanks for comments