Re: usb flash drives

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: 07/27/03 

Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 02:37:13 +0200

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:

> While FAT may be an absolute disaster for big disk drives, vfat, an
> extension of old DOS FAT, is a perfectly good filesystem to use for
> these sorts of 'floppy-like' devices.

Except when the fs becomes corrupted (it happens), and there's no way
to figure out where the files were at. There are commercial programs
that will attempt to find image files on flash cards from digital
cameras when they go bad. Apparently it happens often enough to make
money out of it. 

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net

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