Re: OT?: FAT32(/16?) Question: Max. files in top level
On Saturday 31 December 2016 08:01:15 Nicolas George wrote:
> Le primidi 11 nivôse, an CCXXV, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > From personal experience decades ago, on a dos3.2 system, this is
> > correct. But I can't testify about the newer, or the now several
> > non-M$ versions of dos. I saw an announcement of yet another dos
> > release just a couple weeks back. I assume its getting better
>
> Think a little more about it: it is a limitation of the format, not
> the operating system. If an operating system extends the format, it is
> no longer compatible with the rest of the world, and then there is no
> reason to use FAT at all.
>
> Regards,
Perhaps Nicolas, but ATM I am having it shoved down my throat because I
am playing with using a raspberrypi 3b to run a 1500 lb metal lathe, and
for some reason the boot partition is dos, but mounted as /boot to armhf
version of the debian jessie currently installed. Seems to me the r-pi
bios needs fixed to boot from an ext4 file system. But I'm not in
charge of such, can't even blow the whistle. I'm still kicking the tires
on the whole idea. Using the SPI bus at 32 megabaud to talk to the
peripheral driver that runs the machine, I am finding that the noise
radiated by the motor supplies, which are switchmode, running at 17-19
kilohertz, have enough radiated noise to wreck a 32 megabuad
communications bus 7 inches long. So I am cabbaging filter parts from
old computer psu's to see if I can quiet these power supplies down to a
dull roar. A film at 11 situation I fear.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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