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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:09:46 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dump for MS-DOS partitions.
Message-ID:  <19970325220946.WM44861@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199703251233.OAA18965@eac.iafrica.com>; from Robert Nordier on Mar 25, 1997 14:33:08 %2B0200
References:  <199703242324.QAA23896@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199703251233.OAA18965@eac.iafrica.com>

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As Robert Nordier wrote:

> That a fsck-like utility for FAT/VFAT is relatively trivial, feasible,
> or even desirable, is a dangerous illusion. :-)

Excellent explanation!  Boy, am i happy that the times i've been using
FAT filesystems are now five years ago...

(I always thought that it was very stupid of M$ to continue using FAT-
style filesystem on Winlose, now that they've got {HP,NT}FS.  Now i
know of one more reason for _why_ it is stupid. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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