Talk:Dirty bit

Software Paradigm
Should we have an article on the concept of software frameworks that implement a dirty checking paradigm? Gabefair (talk) 18:07, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

What about file system "cleanly unmounted" or "not cleanly unmounted" flags?
No mention of the bit that gets set when you pull a FAT USB drive without unmounting?? can be read with  (Assuming "E:" as the relevant drive letter) can be set with  (But why would anyone want to do that intentionally?!?) can be cleared with  (If there are no real errors on the filesystem) --BjKa (talk) 10:56, 13 August 2019 (UTC)


 * That's not unique to the FAT file system; some other file systems, on UN*Xes and on Windows, also have an indication of whether the file system was unmounted cleanly or not.


 * I don't know whether that topic is discussed on any other pages; neither mount (computing), mount (Unix), nor fsck seem to mention it. Guy Harris (talk) 18:22, 13 August 2019 (UTC)