Re: [MiNT] Re: fatal error handling

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

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).

I believe current NEWFAT is much safer than GEMDOS of Falcon TOS.

Petr
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