Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Re: Netsurf Cache -- relocation tangent

In article <1fd5ae6f55.jim@abbeypress.net>,
Jim Nagel <netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:

> So on all my machines I made a new directory that comes alphabetically
> last: $._

That may well not come last on all filing systems, so no-one make that
assumption.

Jim doesn't specify what FS(s) all his machines are using.

I discovered this when devising a system for ensuring the completeness of
my back-ups by testing for the presence of a specific (last) file or
directory. As an example, SDFS and Fat32fs differ markedly in the order
they copy items elsewhere.

Implications probably not mission-critical in Jim's particular case, but
are in mine!

Best wishes,

John

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