And that's not to mention file/folder permissions, shadow copies, (Both things are quite desirable, and quite lacking in FAT32. ) among other things.
On 5/12/2009 3:25 PM, Ook wrote: > I might have to recant that last claim. I vaguely recall about 9 years or so > ago when c# was real new that I tried to do something that wouldn't work > because I was hosting some files on a fat32 partition. And then in 2000/2001 > When Win2000 was fairly new there was some weird disk caching bug that we > suspected was only fat32, but Microsoft fixed it in a later service pack. So > maybe there are a few reasons to be using ntfs after all. I'm sure that > Microsoft wants you to, isn't that good enough of a reason? :) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ook"<ooksser...@zootal.com> > To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" > <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:58 PM > Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Available > > > >> I've used fat32 and ntfs for many many years, and I have never had >> anything >> happen to a fat32 partition that made me wish I was using ntfs. If I had >> my >> choice, I'd put everything on ext4 but hell will freeze over before >> windows >> will boot from an ext4 partition (AFAIK, anyhow...) >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "msleeper"<mslee...@ismsleeperwrong.com> >> To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" >> <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> >> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:54 PM >> Subject: Re: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Available >> >> >> >>> If you are using a computer that still has a FAT32 partition, you >>> deserve to have your games crash. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 18:50 -0800, Ook wrote: >>> >>>> I'm guessing the crash on startup fix is for the client, not the server? >>>> My >>>> server has always run fine on fat32, but there is NTFS WTF VALVE? being >>>> screamed from one side of steam support to the other over what happened >>>> to >>>> the client a week or so ago :) >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Jason Ruymen"<jas...@valvesoftware.com> >>>> To:<hlds@list.valvesoftware.com>; "'Half-Lifededicated Linux server >>>> mailing >>>> list'"<hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com>; >>>> <hlds_annou...@list.valvesoftware.com> >>>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 6:32 PM >>>> Subject: [hlds] Left 4 Dead 2 Update Available >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> A required update for Left 4 Dead 2 is now available. Please run >>>>> hldsupdatetool to receive the update. The specific changes include: >>>>> >>>>> - Fixed crash on startup when using FAT32 file system >>>>> - Fixed in-game chat input where the local encoding differs from the >>>>> input >>>>> language's >>>>> - Fixed bug where Survivor Bots would sometimes become unresponsive in >>>>> Scavenge games >>>>> - Updated subtitle localization files for Hungarian, Portuguese, >>>>> Romanian >>>>> and Russian >>>>> - Fixed exploit that allowed players on the Infected team to spawn >>>>> directly next to the Survivors >>>>> >>>>> Jason >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>>> please visit: >>>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
