In article <q0mcdb.i5q.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

No. The FAT filesystem was designed over 20 years ago for 180k floppy
disks and has been cobbled up over the years to support larger devices.
But at heart it is still a floppy filesystem for use on single-task,
low-powered machines where the overhead of doing it right would make the
system unacceptably slow.

Interestingly, Microsoft actually designed and implemented a decent
fragmentation-resistant filesystem with free space maps, B-tree directory
access, etc. but inscrutably decided not to use it in Windows. Instead it
became the HPFS filesystem in OS/2.

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-John (John.Thompson@new.rr.com)