"David Blevins" <david.blevins at visi.com> wrote: > > Are there any real disadvantages to storing large amounts of data > (mp3's) on a vfat partition? The first thing I noticed is that you > can't create links or symlinks on the drive. I think VFAT has some bigger limitations on the characters that you can put in filenames compared to other filesystems (but this may have changed). It's slower than other filesystems, but that doesn't matter too much with music files. The inability to control permissions bothers me the most, though. I can't stand to have all those files marked executable all the time... -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ 60% of all statistics are / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ made up on the spot. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020403/58e1da15/attachment.pgp