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Faust:
Probably makes it illegal to even have Linux on the same PC as Windows... Oh and NTFS partition splitting is good, reading is good but writing is still alpha as far as I know. (could lead to corruption.)
Zombie9920:
quote:Originally posted by Faust:
Not very productive, but he's right. A good journaling system like ext3 or reiserfs is far better. Support for NTFS is pretty much non existent in BSD, Mac OS and a lot of others AFAIK while being very alpha in Linux. Sorry, but for now NTFS isn't something other OS's work well with.
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NTFS "is" a journaling filesystem. :rolleyes:
(EDIT)NTFS isn't a bad filesystem just because Linux doesn't support it that well. It has alot of good abilities. A little FAQ that lists all of NTFS's abilities.
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=63
[ September 02, 2003: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]
TheQuirk:
Well, Microsoft never released the NTFS specs, so everything is reverse engineered. As such, the quality is not very good when it comes to the NTFS "drivers" (well, modules).
Mandrake allows you to resize NTFS partions _after_ you defrag them, thus not allowing Mandrake to accidently remove parts of files, etc.
NTFS read support is standard in many distros, though writing is usually not, because it often destroys the (NTFS) partition (on accident!).
Aside from that, I agree with Zombie. It's not _that_ bad--much better, than say, ext2 or FAT32.
snowdog:
I don't know how M$ can DRM this -- #mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mount/point
Faust:
quote:NTFS "is" a journaling filesystem.
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I said *good* and while it's better (much better) than fat32 it still fragments more than say ext3. I'm aware that it's journaling, we had that guy trying to tell us that the hidden meta data he found was a "secret spying cache" remember? (in the "microsofts hidden files" thread.
quote:I don't know how M$ can DRM this -- #mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mount/point
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They can cover the filesystem with the DMCA, claim it as a business secret and then arrest you for trying to use it or indeed reverse engineer it. Kinda like how that dude got arrested for reverse engineering CSS. Also I'm willing to bet Linux drivers for Bills new filesystem would fall under "circumvention devices."
It'd be so nice if Windows could actually try and compete on a level field for once. Or even better if it was acknowledged that once you buy a piece of software / dvd player it's *yours* and you can reverse engineer it as much as you want.
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