On Friday 27 July 2007, Tim wrote: >Tim: >>> Filesack would be the new chaos system > >Frank Cox: >> I thought Filesack was designed to randomly "fire" and remove files from >> your system on an unintentional and unpredictable basis. > >That's when you incorporate it with the tetris file system. As soon as >several contiguous drive blocks are filled up, they're wiped out. The >results when you manage to fill up an entire sector are even more >impressive. Microsoft has been testing this for some years, now. And quite successfully I might add, its one of the better features of NT-4.0, causing the drive in one of our boxes at the tv station to have to be replaced with a re-imaged version 3 times over a 5 year period because the deleted file was a very important part of NT-4.0. Same file twice, a different one the middle time. I wouldn't trust that filesystem with valuable data any farther than I could throw it after its source code was carved on the back of Mount Rushmore. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Publilius Syrus
