Some senseless babbling from Murray Lesser to Andy Roberts
on 10-24-99  10:39 about File Systems...

 ML> (Excerpts from a message dated 10-22-99, Andy Roberts to Mike Roark;
 ML> original topic: Warp 3 Install):

 ML> Hi Andy--
 
 AR>While I can think of a lot of reasons to use HPFS rather than FAT, I
 >can not think of any good reason to use FAT rather than HPFS.

 ML> If your whole partition will contain only a few long sequential
 ML> files, FAT is not only faster but has more capacity.  I back up to
 ML> Iomega Zip diskettes using the OS/2 BACKUP and RESTORE utilities.  It
 ML> would make no sense whatsoever to format those diskettes HPFS.
[snip]

 ML> But I would never attempt to format any of my "removable media"
 ML> drives HPFS.  While it would be possible (in some cases), it most
 ML> certainly wouldn't serve any useful purpose.

Except, of course, if 8.3 filenames just don't cut it.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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