Yep Microsoft is so obviously at fault here. First of all they designed FAT in the late 70s. Shame on them for using a filesystem design similar to all the other systems at the time. Then to top it off they have the audacity to try and repair it when the user boots the system with a drive attached which is corrupted.
UNIX is such a better system. Let's see what does it do in a similar situation? Well fsck notices the drive needs repair, finds all these file fragments that are listed as allocated but not attached to any directory. Gee it makes up names for them and puts them in the lost+found directory. Gee seems like exactly the same thing to me. The only real lessons to be learned here is. If your drive has a problem don't continue to use it without fixing the problem. Don't use an OS that caches data on removable drives (Windows doesn't MAC OS apparently does). Don't use an OS that mounts a drive that hasn't been closed properly (another MAC deficiency versus Windows). Finally don't give your drive to someone that doesn't know what they're talking about to have it fixed. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Brown Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:16 AM To: Georg Altmann Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Off-topic: FAT32 disaster recovery On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote: > Unfortunately nice people from Redmond can get in your way here. understatement.... > I > attached the FireWire disk to my desktop, booted Windows XP Now you know why you should NEVER use MS products and operating systems to recover corrupted MS filesystems. > My personal judgment is, that files already got corrupted by Mac OS X > writing to the damaged filesystem and thereby overwriting blocks (clusters? > "chains"? whatever) it mistakenly deemed free, but in reality belonged to > already existing files. Yup. Same problem as happens when Messy-Dog (MS DOS) does it. > Anyway, this teaches us once more, that you should > a) make regular backups (doh!) > b) not rely on external hard disks for this > c) not at all use crappy filesystems such as FAT32 FAT is fine for floppies and that's where it should have stayed. AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
