Re: very large FAT16 partition not readable on 2.6.0-test11

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <NDBBLFLJADKDMBPPNBALOEDBCLAB.kkrieser@xxxxxxxxx>
By author:    "Kevin Krieser" <kkrieser@xxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Actually, there is an extension to 4GB that NT used in the 4.0 days (maybe
> earlier?).
> 

One can do that with a 64K cluster size.  This is against the
currently published spec, but was apparently done sometimes.

	-hpa
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