Saturday, 13 December 2014

What is the Virtual FAT

An extension of the FAT file system that was Introduced with window 95.  It argument-ed the 8.3 file naming convention and allowed file names with up 255 character.  It created two names for each file. Along name and an 8.3 compatible name so that older programs could still access files.  When VFAT was incorporated into windows 95.  It use 32 bits code for improved disk access while keeping the 16 bit naming system for backward compatibility with FAT .  It also had the 2GB disk partition limitation.

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