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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 10:49:55 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu> <1gm5rrINNb01@life.ai.mit.edu> <Conrad_Nobili-161292173933@nobili.harvard.edu>
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- In article <Conrad_Nobili-161292173933@nobili.harvard.edu>
- Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:
- >
- > In article <1gm5rrINNb01@life.ai.mit.edu>, mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
- > (Charles Hannum) wrote:
- >>
- >> If you don't *need* extfs, and don't mind short file names, I would
- >> recommend not using it for now.
- >
- > Hmmmm.... Maybe some of you *have* been using DOS too long.... I
- > guess 14-character file names must be quite a luxury to you...! ;-)
-
- I haven't used either DOS or SysVr<=3 for several years. I also
- haven't had a disk completely trashed by a kernel bug in years. I'm
- simply weighing them and indicating which one I consider a bigger loss.
-
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