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by vocram 1439 days ago
If requesting http paths result in accessing the equivalent fs paths, then yes, you can dos it. But nowadays it’s uncommon for a webserver.
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Well the point under discussion is that i/o from a floppy disk is slow. Most servers have much faster disks and it'd be absurd to consider this.

Also the page/buffer cache would probably cache the FAT direntries so probably not a huge issue here.