Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!tuvie!vmars!hp 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 References: <1990Aug29.150748.14752@cbnewsc.att.com> <689@aut.UUCP> <3280@gmdzi.UUCP> Sender: news@tuvie Lines: 17 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. -- | _ | Peter J. Holzer | Think of it | | |_|_) | Technische Universitaet Wien | as evolution | | | | | hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at | in action! | | __/ | ...!uunet!mcsun!tuvie!vmars!hp | Tony Rand |