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What about filesize? FAT usually limits to two GiB...
Ah, the wikipedia says "4 GiB minus 1 byte (2³²1 bytes)". That's not enough, a DVD iso image is larger.
Hmmm, didn't think about it from that standpoint. I thought George was worried about a size limit for the drive. I overlooked the file size issue. But isn't that a file size limit that applies to some processes, but not a limit to the actual physical file size on disk? I'm still fuzzy about that one.
I don't know why there is a file size limit; let me think. It can't be cluster count, because cluster size varies. Ahhhh! I think know why: the read functions in MsDOS will be a word, and 2³² is precisely 4 GiB. AH, reading the wikipedia article, I see more limitation places: the filesize is stored as four bytes in the directory entry (search for "file size" in the wikipedia article). So... it is both a limitation of the filesystem and of the functions used to read it in Dos/Windows. We are stuck with it, unless they release another specification, and I think it would not be compatible with existing tools (changed directory entry format). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkl2fOAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U6XwCfQ4YCNRRTGkrObafTu0zfZjQ0 S8oAni4zIyphJtQeJzzoPGpsplbT1Mvf =ddjM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----