[ros-dev] FullFAT replacement for Fastfat.sys

[James Walmsley]

Hi Everyone,

I just thought I'd introduce myself. I am the author of a new FAT
implementation that was really designed for embedded systems. As such
it provides very good performance. (See www.fullfat-fs.co.uk).

Fireball contacted me a few days ago to discuss the current
development of FullFAT, and since I have agreed to implement an IFS
driver based on FullFAT with a view to replacing the current
fastfat.sys implementation. During the conversation we also discussed
implementing a special journaling extension to FullFAT via the windows
driver.

I hope to start work on this project in the next few weeks, and
further to this I would also like to help in some other areas of
ReactOS. I shall be taking a closer look at the ReactOS code over the
coming weeks, and will probably post some questions about various
aspects. I have just bought the Windows Internals, fifth edition
co-authored by Alex Ionescu, hopefully this will provide me with a
good overview of the Windows architecture etc.

For complete Windows XP compatibility, just how much of the
implementation is currently missing from ReactOS?

Nice to meet you all, and I hope to provide some good contributions to
ReactOS in the near future.

James

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James Walmsley
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