Bugtraq: Re: W2K & ~25000+ temp files = crash + corruption?

From: Robert M. Stockmann <stock_at_JERRY.INFOMAGIC.NL>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:43:30 +0100

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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Received on Mar 01 2000