[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 at worm.me.uk
> > To: ros-dev at 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 at worm.me.uk
> >
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

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