The weird thing is that metadata for the individual FIDs still seems to work. I remember this was based on specific sectors (or was it blocks...) based on the FID number. So far, I have not blown anything up yet. And that surprises me slightly.

I was going to experiment when building the new drives to increase the size of the scratch partition, but after reading on the board that the upgrader depends on specific size partitions that it might not be a good idea after all... Even then, there is no certainty that the extra space would be used / recognized...