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From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. 
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:

>On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
>> Any strong votes to the contrary?  I don't think there's anything
>> about the current msdosfs we want to keep anyway.
>
>It works great for reading 3 1/2" floppies.  This is fairly important...

This is mostly what I use it for as well.  Is msdosfs so evil as to
corrupt my ... uh ... oh, /usr partition if I have /floppy mounted, for
example?  Or does it just go after it's own physical disk?

Brian