Re: VFAT kernel considerations

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

 >>  >> 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.
 >
 >Errr.... what else would you expect? VFAT is an extension and TOS 
 >doesn't know this extension. So it would be rather silly to expect
 >that TOS can do *anything* with VFAT entries properly.

This is exactly the kind of snaffu that makes MagiC's VFAT driver
trash the boot partition, whenever something goes wrong, such as 
deleting a file under SingleTOS then rebooting under MagiC. Boum!

This is precisely why I suggested that we use /etc/fstab to declare
any VFAT partitons and have some sort of FSCK run through it (rc.boot)
to delete any "dead" longname entries while checking the partiton.


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