Hi Alan, > You gave one: Microsoft Windows XP. Risk of very rare system crashes. > > Thats enough in a high reliability environment to require the file system > in question is banned from use site wide at may locations. Can't have a > flash card bringing down a windows dependant US destroyer can they. I think it could indeed be very wise not to insert FAT removable media into 'high reliability' WindowsXP machines, but not because of the patch I've proposed. A prudent IT manager might take a look at how many fastfat.sys crashes are being reported on WindowsXP and realise that viewing ones holiday photos on your heart bypass machine isn't a great idea :-) Cheers, Tridge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
