Re: [MiNT] Re: fatal error handling

["Julian F. Reschke" <fjr010@email.mot.com>]

Petr Stehlik wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 15:14:49 +0100 (MEZ), Frank Naumann wrote:
> 
> FN>> > Could I know why?
> FN>> > Why do you consider slow, old and limited TOSFS better than NEWFAT?
> FN>>
> FN>> Safer is the word.   Frank still finds bugs in it here and then.
> FN>
> FN>The GEMDOS filesystem doesn't have bugs?
> 
> It does. Some versions of GEMDOS (e.g. in TOS 4.0x) do have _very_
> serious bugs that can damage whole partition (by overwritting
> bootsector, FATs and root directory). This happens when a partition is
> nearly filled (I read an article about this on NeST).

Well, any *decent* harddisk driver will prevent writing over the end
of a partition...

jr