Re: Low-bandwith ADSL, or something? (mostly off-topic)

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:45:46 +0100, Nix <nix-razor-pit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


>The last I heard, the following was guaranteed to cause corruption:
>
>- writing to small files (<32 bytes?)

IIRC NTFS stores small files directly in the MFT, so anything which doesnt
quite get it right has the potential for causing a world of hurt.



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