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<h1>FatFs Module Application Note</h1>
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<div class="para">
<h3>Considerations on porting to various platform</h3>
<p>The FatFs module is assuming following terms on portability.</p>
<ul>
<li>ANSI C<br>
The FatFs module is a middleware that written in ANSI C. There is no platform dependence, so long as the compiler is in compliance with ANSI C.</li>
<li>Size of integer types<br>
The FatFs module assumes that size of char/short/long are 8/16/32-bit and int is 16 or 32 bit. These correspondence are defined in integer.h. This will not be a problem on most compilers. When any conflict with existing definitions is occured, you must resolve it with care.</li>
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<h3>Memory Usage (R0.07)</h3>
<table class="lst2">
<tr><th></th><th>AVR</th><th>H8/300H</th><th>PIC</th><th>TLCS-870/C</th><th>V850ES</th><th>SH2</th><th>ARM7TDMI</th><th>IA-32</th></tr>
<tr><td>Compiler</td><td>gcc(WinAVR)</td><td>CH38</td><td>gcc(C30)</td><td>CC870C</td><td>CA850</td><td>SHC</td><td>gcc(WinARM)</td><td>MSC</td></tr>
<tr><td>_WORD_ACCESS</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>1</td></tr>
<tr class="lst3"><td>ROM (Full, R/W)</td><td>11136</td><td>10356</td><td>10838</td><td>15167</td><td>7682</td><td>8654</td><td>10628</td><td>7232</td></tr>
<tr><td>ROM (Min, R/W)</td><td>7072</td><td>6696</td><td>7007</td><td>9800</td><td>4634</td><td>5570</td><td>6564</td><td>4647</td></tr>
<tr><td>ROM (Full, R/O)</td><td>5218</td><td>4626</td><td>4949</td><td>6786</td><td>3528</td><td>3826</td><td>4676</td><td>3267</td></tr>
<tr><td>ROM (Min, R/O)</td><td>3626</td><td>3418</td><td>3536</td><td>4941</td><td>2558</td><td>2874</td><td>3272</td><td>2397</td></tr>
<tr><td>RAM (Static)</td><td>D*2 + 2</td><td>D*4 + 2</td><td>D*2 + 2</td><td>D*2 + 2</td><td>D*4 + 2</td><td>D*4 + 2</td><td>D*4 + 2</td><td>D*4 + 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>RAM (Dynamic)<br>(_FS_TINY == 0)</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*544</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*550</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*544</td><td></td><td>D*560 +<br>F*550</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*550</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*550</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*550</td></tr>
<tr><td>RAM (Dynamic)<br>(_FS_TINY == 1)</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*32</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*36</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*32</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*32</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*36</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*36</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*36</td><td>D*560 +<br>F*36</td></tr>
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<p>These are the memory usage on some target systems with following condition. The memory sizes are in unit of byte, D means number of volumes and F means number of open files. All samples are optimezed in code size.</p>
<pre>
_FS_READONLY 0 (R/W), 1 (R/O)
_FS_MINIMIZE 0 (Full function), 3 (Minimized function)
_USE_STRFUNC 0 (Disable string functions)
_USE_MKFS 0 (Disable f_mkfs function)
_USE_FORWARD 0 (Disable f_forward function)
_CODE_PAGE 932 (Japanese Shift-JIS)
_USE_LFN 0 (Disable LFN)
_MULTI_PARTITION 0 (Single partition)
_EXCLUDE_LIB 0 (Use string.h)
_FS_REENTRANT 0 (Disable reentrancy)
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<h3>Module Size Reduction</h3>
<p>Follwing table shows which function is removed by configuration options for the module size reduction.</p>
<table class="lst2">
<tr><td rowspan="2">Function</td><td colspan="3">_FS_MINIMIZE</td><td>_FS_READONLY</td><td>_USE_STRFUNC</td><td>_USE_MKFS</td><td>_USE_FORWARD</td></tr>
<tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr>
<tr class="lst3"><td>f_mount</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_open</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_close</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_read</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_write</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_sync</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_lseek</td><td></td><td></td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_opendir</td><td></td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_readdir</td><td></td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_stat</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_getfree</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_truncate</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_unlink</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_mkdir</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_chmod</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_utime</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_rename</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_mkfs</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>x</td><td></td><td>x</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_forward</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>x</td></tr>
<tr><td>f_putc</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_puts</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_printf</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>x</td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>f_gets</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>x</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
</table>
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<div class="para">
<h3>Long File Name</h3>
<p>The FatFs module supports long file name (LFN) from revision 0.07. The two different file names, SFN and LFN, of a file is transparent in the file functions except for f_readdir function. The LFN feature requiers a certain working buffer in addition. The buffer size can be configured by <tt>_MAX_LFN</tt> corresponding to the available memory size. The size of long file name will reach up to 255 characters, so that the <tt>_MAX_LFN</tt> should be set to 255 for full featured LFN operation. When the size of working buffer is insufficient for the given file name, the file function will fail with <tt>FR_INVALID_NAME</tt>.</p>
<table class="lst2 rset">
<caption>LFN cfg on ARM7DMI</caption>
<tr><th>Code page</th><th>ROM size [bytes]</th></tr>
<tr><td>SBCS</td><td>+4719</td></tr>
<tr><td>932(Shift-JIS)</td><td>+63755</td></tr>
<tr><td>936(GBK)</td><td>+178943</td></tr>
<tr><td>949(Korean)</td><td>+141003</td></tr>
<tr><td>950(Big5)</td><td>+112631</td></tr>
</table>
<p>When LFN is enabled, the module size will be increased depends on the selected code page. Right table shows the difference in module size between the conditions that LFN is disabled and enabled on some code pages. We are the Japanese, Chinese and Korean have tens of thousands of characters. Unfortunately, it requires a huge OEM-Unicode bidirectional conversion table and the module size will be drastically increased that shown in the table. As the result, the FatFs with LFN enabled will not able to be implemented to most 8-bit microcontrollers including AVR. <small>This is the reason why I had not been interested in implementing the LFN feature for a long time :-)</small></p>
<p>Note that the LFN feature on the FAT file system is a patent of Microsoft Corporation. When enable it on the commercial products, a license from Microsoft may be required depends on the final destination.</p>
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<h3>Re-entrancy</h3>
<p>The file operations to the different volume can always work simultaneously independent of re-entrancy setting. The re-entrancy to the same volume can be enabled with <tt>_FS_REENTRANT</tt> option. In this case, also the platform dependent lock out function in the ff.c must be re-written for each RTOS. When a file function is called while the volume is in use by any other thread, the access is blocked until the volume is unlocked. If wait time exceeded <tt>_TIMEOUT</tt> milliseconds, the function will abort with <tt>FR_TIMEOUT</tt>. The timeout might not be supported on some RTOS.</p>
<p>There is an exception on f_mount and f_mkfs function. These functions are not re-entrant to the same volume. When use these functions, other thread must close the corresponding file on the volume and avoid to access the volume.</p>
<p>Note that this section describes on the re-entrancy of the FatFs module itself. There is no assumtion on the re-entrancy of low level disk I/O module.</p>
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<h3>Performance effective file access</h3>
<p>For good performance on reading/writing files on the small embedded system, application programmer should consider what process is done in the FatFs module. The file data on the disk is transferred in following sequence by f_read function.</p>
<p>Figure 1. Sector miss-aligned read (short)<br>
<img src="../img/f1.png" width="490" height="73" alt="">
</p>
<p>Figure 2. Sector miss-aligned read (long)<br>
<img src="../img/f2.png" width="490" height="140" alt="">
</p>
<p>Figure 3. Sector aligned read<br>
<img src="../img/f3.png" width="490" height="119" alt="">
</p>
<p>The file I/O buffer means a sector buffer to read/write a partial data on the sector. The sector buffer is either file private sector buffer on each file object or shared sector buffer on the file system object. The buffer configuration option <tt>_FS_TINY</tt> determins which sector buffer is used for the file data transfer. When tiny buffer (1) is selected, data memory consumption is reduced 512 bytes each file object. In this case, FatFs module uses only a sector buffer on the file system object for file data transfer and FAT/directory access. The disadvantage of the tiny buffer configuration is: the FAT data cached in the sector buffer will be lost by file data transfer and it must be reloaded at every cluster boundary. However it will be suitable for most application from view point of the decent performance and low memory comsumption.</p>
<p>Figure 1 shows that partial sector data is transferred via the file I/O buffer. On long data transfer shown in Figure 2, middle of transfer data that covers one or more sector is transferred to application buffer directly. Figure 3 shows that the case of entier transfer data is aligned to the sector boundary. In this case, file I/O buffer is not used. On the direct transfer, the maximum extent of sectors are read with disk_read function at a time but the multi sector transfer never across the cluster boundary even if it is contiguous.</p>
<p>Therefore taking effort to sector aligned read/write accesss avoids buffered data transfer and the read/write performance will be improved. Besides the effect, cached FAT data will not be flushed by file data transfer on the tiny configuration so that it can achieve same performance as non tiny configuration with small memory footprint.</p>
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<h3>Critical Section</h3>
<p>When write operation to the FAT file system is interrupted due to any accidental failure, such as sudden blackout, incorrect disk removal and unrecoverable disk error, the FAT structure can be collapted. Following images shows the critical section on the FatFs module.</p>
<div class="lset">
Figure 4. Long critical section<br>
<img src="../img/f4.png" width="320" height="436" alt="fig.4">
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<div class="lset">
Figure 5. Minimized critical section<br>
<img src="../img/f5.png" width="320" height="436" alt="fig.5">
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<br class="clr">
<p>An interruption in the red section can cause a cross link; as a result, the file/directory being changed may be lost. There is one or more possibility listed below when an interruption in the yellow section is occured.</p>
<ul>
<li>File data being rewrited is collapted.</li>
<li>A file being appended returns initial state.</li>
<li>A file created as new is gone.</li>
<li>A file created as new or in overwritten remains with length of zero.</li>
<li>Efficiency of disk use gets worse due to lost chain.</li>
</ul>
<p>Each case does not affect the files that not in write mode open. To minimize risk of data loss, the critical section can be minimized like shown in Figure 5 by minimizing the time that file is opened in write mode or using f_sync function properly.</p>
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