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Originally Posted by redbaron101
Its an old oudated Microsoft page, it also says on the same page, "Disadvantages of FAT32 include: . . . .
FAT32 volumes are not accessible from any other operating systems other than Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98."
although that may have been the case at the time of writing this is clearly incorrect and out of date as nearly everything can read fat32 noawadays including most flavours of linux.
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also, as I recall, long files names were not fully supported in FAT16 w/o a special driver and even then it could blow your file system if the root directory had too many entries. Otherwise FAT16 was limited strictly to the 8.3 naming convention. It's been a LONG time since I even looked at a FAT16 system so some of that might be off...
I also cannot recall a system of any sort I have run across that does not support long filenames which means it is FAT32 or some 32-bit OS...
I would think for an ebook reader FAT32 is a MUST support sorta thing. Without it the OS will need to maintain a dedicated database that maps filenames longer than the 8.3 format to an 8.3 filename...might as well use FAT32 if they are going to that much trouble. BTW, this is essentially what the special driver for MSDOS under Win95 did, even so, it was messy at best.