[14118] in bugtraq
Re: W2K & ~25000+  temp files = crash + corruption?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert M. Stockmann)
Wed Mar  1 18:55:45 2000
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Date:         Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:43:30 +0100
Reply-To: "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@JERRY.INFOMAGIC.NL>
From: "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@JERRY.INFOMAGIC.NL>
X-To:         Clifford Hammerschmidt <cliff@MARKETINGTIPS.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Clifford Hammerschmidt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running Windows 2000 Pro on a FAT32 file system. I've got a program
> that creates a very large number of temp files in a single directory.
> Somewhere between 25000 and 30000 files the system reboots. After the
> reboot I noticed file system corruption. (It toasted my mailbox files. This
> may have been due to having eudora running at the time of the crash.)
Ain't NTFS the only sensible filesystem anyway?
Robert
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