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Darren New wrote:
> They added a bitmap for free space lists, ACLs (which would seem to
> imply ownership), different timestamps and different limits on various
> things like directory size, some transaction safety (which would seem to
> imply journaling of some sort), and so on.
Nice, but...
> I.e., all the good stuff of NTFS, shoehorned into FAT. Bleh. The whole
> point of FAT was that it was trivial to understand and implement. :-)
...exactly (why oh why would they leave out the alternate data streams
:p). OTOH it could be licencial politics from MS, still keeping NTFS as
theier own child and not let it out.
> The dirty bit is stored in a different place than the scheduled chkdsk,
> so I was guessing it might ignore and clear the dirty bit if you invoked
> it manually.
Ah.
> You mean it *actually* set the dirty bit. :-)
Yes, and unset it also. It now boots up nicely again. :-)
-Aero
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