RE: Your backup is unsafe!
Jones D (djones2@glam.ac.uk)
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:54:38 +0100
> BTW: Are you still making (going to make) the short names usable from
> the UNIX level? I'm still against it and now have a reason; With the
> arrival of devfs almost any filesystem will be able to serve as a root
> filesystem as character and block devices are no longer needed.
> (Eg: Novell NCP or Amiga FFS) With the short names
> 'available' I for one
> would be very reluctant to try VFAT as a root filesystem. This would
> (I think) leave just the MSDOS and VFAT r/w filesystems
> unable to do root ...
That would probably be a good thing. Would you really trust Windows to
ignore the partition completely? I think recent versions of 9x will create
recycle bins on all partitions whether you want them or not.
And would you trust scandisk and it's ilk when they decide to check all
vfat partitions ? I certainly wouldn't. No, please. Forget this horrible
idea!
d.
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