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==== Guidelines if you do decide to roll your own ====
* Consider carefully what it will be used for.
* Use a program to figure out the layout (e.g. a spreadsheet). The basic areas needed are:
** Bootsector. Unless you are booting with UEFI, this is a must. Even then,
** File table. Don't think of this as just a simple table containing a list of files and their locations. One idea
** Data area. Files will be stored here.
* Create a program to read and write disk images with your filesystem. Parts of this will be portable into the fs driver.
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