alt Hacker NewsI've never _actually_ implemented a filesystem, but when researching OS dev it seemed like FAT32 was pretty close to what you'd write as a minimum viable filesystem while being a very well known quantity.
I've never _actually_ implemented a filesystem, but when researching OS dev it seemed like FAT32 was pretty close to what you'd write as a minimum viable filesystem while being a very well known quantity.
Yes, I think that's a fair assessment, although the fractal of stupid runs deep in FAT32: a separate 5-bit field for seconds within a minute? Separate fixed-width fields for filename and extension? A 4 GiB file size limit?
But, although FAT32 does indeed have the virtue of relative simplicity, that's no excuse for VFAT.