Re: Warehouse Stationary Printers and USB Sticks

I think other problems you might strike with fat32 is if you have more than
12 thousand files in one folder.
On Dec 9, 2015 11:49 AM, "Daniel Beer" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 11:03:28AM +1300, Noel Sheridan wrote:
> > I think probably fat32 is not a reliable format when writing and reading
> long
> > files.
>
> Almost all VFAT operations will result in corruption if the power fails
> mid-write, but the reliability of a filesystem on a USB key is probably
> a moot point. Most manufacturers guarantee nothing about the behaviour
> of their flash translation layers, so it's entirely possible for a power
> failure to corrupt a filesystem which would ordinarily be reliable when
> used on a hard disk.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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