Indeed it would, but somehow I suspect emulating a full Appleshare file server on an affordable microcontroller would be non-trivial.

And why bother with FAT16/32? Assuming one were using CF, they present as ATA devices and ...

The cards themselves can of course be formatted with any type of file system such as JFS and can be divided into partitions as long as the host device can read them.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Flash#Filesystems