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On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:12:52 +0200, Garrett Cooper  
<youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Why on earth would you want to create a 400GB MSDOSFS formatted disk?  
> MSDOSFS was quick but offered no protection against power outages or  
> incomplete writes, and was horrible in terms of disk fragmentation..

Not to mention the fact that you cannot create files larger than 4GB on it.

Andreas