Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filling the FAT (was: playing CDROM music questions)

2024-01-09 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 10:57:29AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long > >>filenames. > > Seen it happen; > > I have serious doubts about the "it". > > > Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of > > a session of

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filling the FAT (was: playing CDROM music questions)

2024-01-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 10:07:26 -0600 David Wright wrote: Hello David, >The size of that is fixed when formatted, at least up to FAT16. >Long filenames will eat it up more quickly still. Create >subdirectories and the problem goes away. Yes, this is exactly what I experienced. So not the FAT at fa

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filling the FAT (was: playing CDROM music questions)

2024-01-09 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2024 at 10:57:29 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long > >>filenames. > > Seen it happen; > > I have serious doubts about the "it". > > > Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of > > a session of c

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filling the FAT (was: playing CDROM music questions)

2024-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long >>filenames. > Seen it happen; I have serious doubts about the "it". > Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of > a session of copying multiple files would be lost because the FAT was > filled, and overwrit