Re: Minix crash

[Mike lamb <mike@ciren.co.uk>]

At 11:28 26/08/97 -0400, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> >> 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.

Why do you need lots of tools? ;)

Mike