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

[Alex Ionescu]

I'm still at a loss as to why you are all ignoring the free, open  
source, FastFAT driver in the Microsoft WDK.

On 29-Jul-09, at 10:56 AM, Gabriel ilardi wrote:

>   Hi James,
>
>  Welcome to the team!
>  ReactOS kernel aims to be compatible with W2k3's, meanwhile Win32  
>  subsystem aims atm Vista.
>  You'll come across missing stuff, just search for UNIMPLEMENTED  
>  throughout the code. Encoded started a page with missing  
>  functionality here:http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Missing_ReactOS_Functionality
>  Hope you have fun with ReactOS as much as we do...
>
>  Gabriel ilardi.
>
> >   Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:59:42 +0200
> >  From: james(a)worm.me.uk
> >  To: ros-dev(a)reactos.org
> >  Subject: [ros-dev] FullFAT replacement for Fastfat.sys
> >
> >  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
> >
> >  --
> >  James Walmsley
> >  ----------------------------------------
> >  james(a)worm.me.uk
> >
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu