翻译windows internals 第12章文件系统（持续更新）

The root directory of FAT12 and FAT16 volumes is preassigned enough space at the start of a volume to store 256 directory entries, which places an upper limit on the number of files and directories that can be stored in the root directory. (There’s no preassigned space or size limit on FAT32 root directories.) A FAT directory entry is 32 bytes and stores a file’s name, size, starting cluster, and
time stamp (last-accessed, created, and so on) information. If a file has a name that is Unicode or that doesn’t follow the MS-DOS 8.3 naming convention, additional directory entries are allocated to store the long file name. The supplementary entries precede the file’s main entry. Figure 12-4 shows a sample directory entry for a file named “The quick brown fox.” The system has created a THEQUI~1.FOX 8.3 representation of the name (that is, you don’t see a “.” in the directory entry because it is assumed to come after the eighth character) and used two more directory entries to store