Hi
I don't know much about NTFS (only using it) and even less about Linux-NTFS. But it was funny following this conversation.
Filesystem must be the rock solid data storage structure. You must know the meaning of each byte (*) for such reliable and interoperable filesystem.
Exactly. Every needed byte is known.
Wow! Really?
(*) You do not need to know the journalling metadata as long as you do not support journalling and/or its recovery.
One of the unknown issues is journaling :)
AHA! And not only "The unknown issue" but "One of the unknown issues". Reminds me of Asterix: Whole Europe is part of the Roman Empire. Whole...?
Sorry, I couldn't resist, no offense :)
bye Fabi
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
Filesystem must be the rock solid data storage structure. You must know the meaning of each byte (*) for such reliable and interoperable filesystem.
Exactly. Every needed byte is known.
Wow! Really?
(*) You do not need to know the journalling metadata as long as you do not support journalling and/or its recovery.
One of the unknown issues is journaling :)
AHA! And not only "The unknown issue" but "One of the unknown issues".
I expected this note. I extend my first sentence: every needed byte is known to implement a posix read/write NTFS driver.
Journaling is not posix, quota is not posix, enryption is not posix, etc. NTFS has quite a lot of features. For basic read/write no need to implement the extensions.
Sorry, I couldn't resist, no offense :)
No, no. Please continue asking. Only stupid question is one not asked.
I think the root of problem that Linux open source NTFS development "stopped" is because there are a lot of misbeliefs and people give up even before they would try to accomplish it.
BTW, I hope the topic is not off-topic here. If it is then please let me know and I stop answering. I always wondered how Wine users solve the issue, running an application from an NTFS partition that needs read/write access to NTFS ... I don't use Windows so I don't have much knowledge on Wine but IMHO it's one of the most important open source projects.
Szaka
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