Re: VFAT kernel considerations

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

 >On Wed, 20 May 1998, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
 >
 >> > Yes, or if you boot plain TOS (can't read the VFAT entry's).
 >> 
 >> Well, every file should have a standard 8+3 filename as well as a
 >> VFAT-entry, so if the FAT is readable by TOS it's also quite possible
 >> to boot plain TOS.
 >
 >That's true, but then if you delete a file that in VFAT has a long
 >filename, things can get messy. :)

Exactly.  Write a file using VFAT, delete it under SingleTOS.
You end up with a longname reference to a file that is gone.


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