Re: [MiNT] Kobold replacement for MiNT

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On Monday 26 April 2010, George Nakos wrote:
>  While copying, Kobold has a much more efficient way of reading/writing
> the files, but there is a danger as I wrote in my first reply. In the
> superfast mode, it reads and writes to the FAT directly. Which is fine
> for floppies and old hard drivers, but I dunno what will happen in a big
> modern partition.

It's not about age of hard disk but about Kobold doing things behind
the OS's back.  If OS (say HD driver) implements caching for the file system
accesses/changes and program does direct access, guess how consistent
your FAT will be...


	- Eero