Subject: Re: MSDOS Filesystems
To: None <jkreska@ftw.mot.com>
From: John F. Woods <jfw@jfwhome.funhouse.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/08/1995 19:23:01
> Has anyone else noticed that if you mount a hard disk that has the FAT
> filesystem on it, any writes you do the FAT filesystem will be corrupt.
> The floppy code works just fine. I don't understand what the difference
> could be.
I've seen this happen only once (only lost a 40MB partition :-( ). I have,
however, seen it not happen dozens and dozens of times (knock wood). I
suppose this is the worst possible case, since it means there clearly is
a bug, but it won't be obvious...