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- From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: ELVIS WARNING - LOST CLUSTERS ON PC's
- Message-ID: <1790@tuvie>
- Date: 3 Sep 90 15:24:25 GMT
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- strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
- >A really perfect argument. MSDOS filesystem semantics are different from
- >Unix filesystem semantics. This shows how poor DOS is. Oh well...
-
- If the filesystem semantics of MSDOS mean that you can remove (or rename)
- an open file and thereby corrupt your filesystem, that DOES show how poor
- DOS is, IMHO.
-
- If DOS is not able to defer the removal of an open file until the file is
- closed, it should not remove the file and return an error. Lost clusters
- are not dangerous, but having your disk slowly filled with them is at least
- inconvenient.
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