On Tue, 17 May 2011 12:55:31 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

FAT filesystems can't be made safe in this way because they require
multiple sector updates to be made simultenously, to remain self
consistent.

Can you explain? If they are built with one FAT, I can't see why that
would be so, although there might be some free block loss.

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