The FAT File System

Mynewt provides an implementation of the FAT filesystem which is currently supported on MMC/SD cards.

Description

File Allocation Table (FAT) is a computer file system architecture and a family of industry-standard file systems utilizing it. The FAT file system is a legacy file system which is simple and robust. It offers good performance even in lightweight implementations, but cannot deliver the same performance, reliability and scalability as some modern file systems.

Configuration

fatfs configuration can be tweaked by editing fs/fatfs/include/fatfs/ffconf.h. The current configuraton was chosen to minimize memory use and some options address limitations existing in the OS:

• Write support is enabled by default (can be disabled to minimize memory use).

• Long filename (up to 255) support is disabled.

• When writing files, time/dates are not persisted due to current lack of a standard hal_rtc interface.

• No unicode support. Vanilla config uses standard US codepage 437.

• Formatting of new volumes is disabled.

• Default number of volumes is configured to 1.

API

To include fatfs on a project just include it as a dependency in your project:

pkg.deps:
    - "@apache-mynewt-core/fs/fatfs"

It can now be used through the standard file system abstraction functions as described in FS API.

Example

An example of using fatfs on a MMC card is provided on the MMC documentation.