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...it means File Allocation Table, adding the 32 was just insult to injury...
FAT12 and FAT16 were a thing as well.
...i'm not interested in teens...you from the 80's?.../s, really sorry
12 isn't exactly teen, is it? ;) Must I have lived through it to know about it? :P
What do you mean twelveteen isn't a teen?
I fear what that could mean for someone being eightteen
Sorry, but, what? pedantry says teen is 11-20, weird meter says:what?
I think it's usually 13-19
Eleven.
Twelve.
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
What is your condoning level?
I don't know what that is tbh
I remember having to implement fat12 in assembly. Good times...
Should I add that to my backlog of things I want to but will never start?
Nope, there's already littlefs, FatFs and also lwext4 for microcontrollers.
Only if you want to learn how the simplest file system works. I did it in uni, not super useful for practical purposes.
Repo?
It was a Uni project, back then even svn was a new and scary tech. I doubt I have a copy.
Fair enough, I had to try.