About.

FullFAT was started in 2008.

FullFAT took around 8 months to complete.

FullFAT was written by James Walmsley

What is FullFAT

FullFAT is a fully featured FAT12/16 and FAT32 filesystem driver. It was designed from the ground up to be completely thread-safe. I started development of FullFAT because of a frustration with poor performance, and other buggy open-source FAT implementations.

Worse still looking for commercial options was difficult, because none allow you try their code without a license. Many developers gave poor reviews of the most commonly available libraries, and for us it just wasn't worth the risk.

Higher Performance

FullFAT uses algorithms that ensure maximum data I/O throughput whenever possible. Due to FullFAT's layered architecture its also possible to add associative caching quickly and transparently via a plugin. Such a plugin is provided free to commercial customers, however many users have implemented their own with relative ease.

Credits

FullFAT was designed and created by James Walmsley, however many others have provided a great deal of help and input. In no particular order they are:

Adam Fullerton
Christopher Clark - DigiPen Institute of Technology
Hein Tibosch (Hein_Tibosch) - Very thorough code review and patches.
Roland Oberhammer (Suedtirolli)

Bluetechnix Mechatronische Systeme GmbH (Austria)
Renesas

Who's it for?

If you are working on an embedded project and you need to provide access to files on an SD-Card, USB Stick, or flash memory device, (Or indeed any mass-storage device), then FullFAT is probably for you. If you're already using a FAT filesystem driver like EFSL, DosFS or other FAT implementations but are dissatisfied with their performance, reliability or overall quality then FullFAT is for you.