Re: [ros-dev] FullFAT replacement for Fastfat.sys

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

Hello James, that sounds exciting!
Welcome to ReactOS! Hope you willl have fun here :)

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:59 PM, James Walmsley <james(a)worm.me.uk> wrote:

>   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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