[计算机软件及应用]微软官方FAT文件系统格式规范说明.docVIP

FAT: General Overview of On-Disk Format—Page  PAGE 34 PAGE  PAGE 34 ??2000?Microsoft?Corporation. All rights reserved. Hardware White Paper Designing Hardware for Microsoft? Operating Systems Microsoft Extensible Firmware Initiative FAT32 File System Specification FAT: General Overview of On-Disk Format Version 1.03, December 6, 2000Microsoft Corporation The FAT (File Allocation Table) file system has its origins in the late 1970s and early1980s and was the file system supported by the Microsoft? MS-DOS? operating system. It was originally developed as a simple file system suitable for floppy disk drives less than 500K in size. Over time it has been enhanced to support larger and larger media. Currently there are three FAT file system types: FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32. The basic difference in these FAT sub types, and the reason for the names, is the size, in bits, of the entries in the actual FAT structure on the disk. There are 12 bits in a FAT12 FAT entry, 16 bits in a FAT16 FAT entry and 32 bits in a FAT32 FAT entry.  Contents TOC \o 1-1 \h \z   HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331591 Notational Conventions in this Document  PAGEREF _Toc289331591 \h 7  HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331592 General Comments (Applicable to FAT File System All Types)  PAGEREF _Toc289331592 \h 7  HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331593 Boot Sector and BPB  PAGEREF _Toc289331593 \h 7  HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331594 FAT Data Structure  PAGEREF _Toc289331594 \h 13  HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331595 FAT Type Determination  PAGEREF _Toc289331595 \h 14  HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331596 FAT Volume Initialization  PAGEREF _Toc289331596 \h 19  HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331597 FAT32 FSInfo Sector Structure and Backup Boot Sector  PAGEREF _Toc289331597 \h 21  HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331598 FAT Directory Structure  PAGEREF _Toc289331598 \h 22  HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331599 FAT Long Directory Entries  PAGEREF _Toc289331599 \h 25  HYPERLINK \l _Toc289331600 Name Limits and Character Sets  PAG