what's difference between fastfat and fastfat_new

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IceAmber
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what's difference between fastfat and fastfat_new

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Hi, everyone
I want to learn something about fat filesystem, e.g. fat32 and exfat
but I found two folder of fat (fastfat and fastfat_new) under the filesystems, what's the difference between them? and how to read the code if I want to learn the exfat? I wonder what the exfat will do when back to the previous directory.
hbelusca
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Re: what's difference between fastfat and fastfat_new

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Looks like you first need to learn C before doing anything else...
Zombiedeth
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Re: what's difference between fastfat and fastfat_new

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i don't believe you will learn anything about exfat from this driver as even microsoft use a totally different driver for exfat. To your question fastfat_new should be the microsoft open source driver and fastfat is the original reactos implementation. ReactOS currently does not support exfat.

I think you maybe confused about exfat as far as i know it actually has more in common with ntfs then fat. It's partition id is even the same as ntfs.
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