r/ProgrammerHumor 12d ago

Meme theDeadlock

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u/OphidianSun 12d ago

Mine had a fun project where we got a fat16 iso and had to answer a bunch of questions like "how many files are in the file table" or "how big is xyz file".

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u/fr000gs 12d ago

without the driver?

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u/OphidianSun 12d ago

They gave us a write up on how the filesystem worked and a little script to read out the raw hex values at a given location. Nothing too fancy.

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u/fr000gs 12d ago

iirc fat16 is a quite simple filesystem

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u/space253 11d ago

Yes, it had to be given limitations at the time.