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

From: Robert M. Stockmann (stockat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 17:43:30 PST

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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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