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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> David Schultz wrote:
> 
> >FAT is somewhat less robust than UFS.  ...
> 
> That is possibly the most subtle funny thing I have read
> all day.  "An orange crate is somewhat less robust than
> a Humvee" is how I read that.

:-)  In this case, I was referring specifically to bugs in
our present implementation, not to the filesystem itself.
The overall design certainly deserves stronger words.