Re: [MiNT] Re: fatal error handling

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Petr Stehlik wrote:

> FN>The GEMDOS filesystem doesn't have bugs?
> 
> It does. Some versions of GEMDOS (e.g. in TOS 4.0x) do have _very_
> serious bugs that can damage whole partition (by overwritting
> bootsector, FATs and root directory). This happens when a partition is
> nearly filled (I read an article about this on NeST).

This is a bug in certain versions of AHDI, and not GEMDOS itself. What
happens is (IIRC) that a partition can "overflow", and corrupt the
start of the following partition.


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