Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: interactive restores on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE

[Phil S. <al...@ca...>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:11:36PM +0000, Alan Brown wrote:
> Fat is problematic in itself. It was designed for floppy drives and 
> doesn't scale at all well.

Yup.  Describing FAT as a filesystem is widely considered to be grossly
overgenerous, like describing DOS as an operating system.  The current
FAT32/VFAT implementation is as over-extended an implementation of the
original FAT12 as the Pentium IV is of the 8086.  (VFAT really is an
astoundingly ugly kludge, of which the best that can be said is that
despite all its faults, it does actually work.)

There's a reason all my Win2K boxen are Athlons running NTFS.


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