Registry Settings for Other FATFS Options (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

1/6/2010

File allocation table (FAT) file systems (FATFS) have numerous registry values you can set to control or customize the file system.

The following table shows miscellaneous registry values that you can set to control or customize FAT, exFAT, and TexFAT file systems. Some of these values are part of the default registry settings for FAT, exFAT, and TexFAT.

Registry value: Type Applies to Description

BufferSize: REG_DWORD

FAT, exFAT, TexFAT

Set to the number of sector-sized buffers to use for streams. The default value is 64 for TexFAT and 32 for FAT.

CodePage: REG_DWORD

FAT only

Overrides CP_OEMCP in all character conversions.

DirHandleWrite: REG_DWORD

FAT, exFAT, TexFAT

Set to 1 to support writing to directories through directory handles.

Dll: REG_SZ

FAT, exFAT, TexFAT

Specifies the name of the file system DLL.

Flags

FAT, TexFAT

Indicates FAT file system registry flags. Default is 64. For more information, see Flags Registry Subkey.

LockIoBuffers: REG_DWORD

FAT, exFAT, TexFAT

Set to 1 (default) to indicate that FSD Manager should call LockPages to page-in all input/output buffers.Set to 0 (zero) only if the file system driver performs all I/O buffering.

Util: REG_SZ

FAT, exFAT, TexFAT

Specifies the DLL name of utility to do format and scan, such as fatutil.dll.

See Also

Concepts

FAT File System Registry Settings