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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
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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