Re: Minix crash

[q-funk@citenet.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >> Precisely why I never will install Minix.  If/when a problem
 >> happens, you're dead meat; you data is lost for good. Not so
 >> under FAT, because there is a plethora of recovery utilities
 >> for standard TOS (ie: DOS) partitions.
 >
 >Hmm pardon me for being rude but I think I have missed something
 >here..
 >
 >Do you have any partition with a fs that have support for long
 >fil names? (You will have to have that to be able to fully use the
 >tool I'm working on otherwise you won't see the long names after all
 >since the tool only copies the files with the long names intact into
 >another partition..)

No, I currently don't run Minix or longnames fs.

For compatibility purposes, I would rather have
VFAT than Minix, PLUS the above problems with a
potential Minix crash make me wonder how safe a
Unix partition is, given fewer recover tools in 
case a problem happens.


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