Re: [MiNT] Re: fatal error handling

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@hal.fishpool.com>]

> > > > > The renaming under the NEWFATFS use another algorithm as the TOS.
> > > 
> > > And can you explain me an algorithm that doesn't change the sorting on 
> > > VFAT drives? I hope you know that long filenames need extra directory 
> > > entries (dependent on the name length).
> > 
> > Solution:  
> > disallow NEWFAT on _partitions_ with a bootsector. Use TOSFS on those.
> 
> And OK, you meant "executable bootsector". IMHO better solution is to
> trash out or patch XBOOT. TOSFS has no long future in MiNT.

I don't use Xboot myself, but definitely oppose to being forced
to use NEWFAT on my boot partition.  I use TOSFS on my drive C.

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