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YSDDT 0.1.2 (DOS Toolkit for Working with Disks & Partitions) (Announce)

posted by RayeR Homepage, CZ, 09.10.2025, 23:16

> The problem is
> that every time you need to write something (even just to change the time
> stamp or change a file attribute) you write to the FAT area of the disk, so
> even though the data from the file itself may get stored in a new place the
> metadata doesn't move...

In my case I used UDF because of this. UDF should be optimized for RAMs with much less write amplification over FAT but of course unreadable under DOS (I remember there was some attempt to bring UDF support in DOS but never moved further)...

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