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Originally Posted by DNSB
I got bitten by this a couple of decades back where a backup solution used very long filenames for the backup indexes and crashed when the number of backup index entries was about 7500 though that volume was less than 50% full.
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I got burned by the power interruption once or twice. If the power goes out while something's being modified it can leave it in a half-modified state and scramble up the file system itself. Most modern filesystems use journaling and transaction processing to prevent this, so usually you only lose whatever data was being written.
I think there's a "transaction-safe FAT" somewhere about but I'm not sure if it's actually used anywhere.