FAT filesystem and Linux: Difference between revisions

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The UMSDOS project was started in 1992 by Jacques Gelinas and made available to the net in January 1994 as a patch. It was included in the standard distribution starting with kernel 1.1.36.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}} UMSDOS was removed from the Linux 2.6.11 kernel for lack of maintenance.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}} UVFAT, an extension of UMSDOS to use the Windows data structures for long filenames instead of its own, was discontinued before release.<ref>{{Cite web|title = UMSDOS filesystem: UVFAT support|url = http://linux.voyager.hr/umsdos/#uvfat|website = linux.voyager.hr|accessdate = 2015-07-16}}</ref> They should work in 2.4.x kernels.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}

Earlier Linux distributions which used UMSDOS are [[MuLinux]],<ref>[http://mulinux.narod.ru/en_index.html MuLinux Project]</ref> Monkey Linux <ref>[http://projectdevolve.tripod.com/text/descript.htm Monkey Linux Explained]</ref> and Winlinux 2000.<ref>[http://archive.is/20120707065033/http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1044390.html The Linux/Windows combo: Use these resources to make it work]</ref>

== Accessing FAT formatted volumes without kernel support ==

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Although the filesystem drivers in the kernel make it possible to access files and directories on FAT formatted volumes in the normal manner, it is also possible to do so without kernel driver support, using the utility programs that form the [[mtools]] utility suite. Like the ''vfat'' FAT filesystem driver, mtools provides long filename support using the same disc data structures that Microsoft Windows uses.<ref name=Smith2 /><ref name=Rajagopal>{{cite book|title=Multi-operating system networking: living with Unix, Netware, and NT|series=Auerbach Best Practices Series|author=Raj Rajagopal|publisher=CRC Press|year=2000|pages=25–21|isbn=<!--0-8493-9831-2-->978-0-8493-9831-5}}</ref><ref name=Welsh>{{cite book|title=Running Linux|series=Essential Guide to Linux|author=Matt Welsh|edition=4th|publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.|year=2003|isbn=<!--0-596-00272-6-->978-0-596-00272-5|pages=405}}</ref>

Alternately, one of the [[FUSE (linux)|FUSE]] filesystem drivers may be used -- FatFuse, FuseFat or mountlo<ref>[http://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/wiki/NonNativeFileSystems/ name=FUSE: NonNativeFileSystems]</ref>.

== POSIX Overlay Filesystem ==