Hi,

On Oct 30, 1:18 pm, J de Boyne Pollard
wrote:
> B> This is still partially broken, because floppies can be
> B> cloned (e.g. "cat /dev/fd0 > /dev/fd1").
>
> Volume duplication utilities are, and have been since the days of MS/
> PC-DOS version 4, required not to copy the volume serial number from
> source to target volumes, precisely so that this method of detecting
> changed volumes works. That "cat" doesn't do this means that it isn't
> the correct tool for the job at hand.

And I'm sure all of these Volume duplication utilities fully support
all disk formats, including the hundreds of file systems that existed
before the utilities were written and all filesystems invented after
the utilities are written; including file systems that don't even have
any volume serial number, and including things like my OS's boot
floppies that don't even have a file system.

Or perhaps you mean that if your OS is so broken that it only ever
allows FAT filesystems on floppies (and wets it's pants if there's
anything else, like Windows does), then you don't need to worry? ;-)


Cheers,

Brendan