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mixmastamyk 13 hours ago

FAT bulletproof? The newest versions have a few improvements but this is a line of filesystems for disposable sneakernet data.

SoftTalker 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe bulletproof is a bit strong but I mean, it was fine on DOS/Windows for decades. I never lost data due to filesystem corruption on those computers. Media failures, yes frequently in the days of floppy disks.

pjmlp an hour ago | parent [-]

I had a HD fail on me while using Windows 98 as main OS, yet thanks to ext, I think it was ext2 at the time this happened, I still managed to repurpose it for Linux, for several months.

It was ok from possible data failures point of view, I didn't had much data other than the distro and the stuff I also needed to compile under Linux.

Somehow it managed to still work with the disk, with the sectors that were not damaged.