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From: Anton A. <ai...@ca...> - 2004-02-26 14:30:16
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Pawel Kot wrote: > > > Secondly and most importantly, you _need_ Windows to do this. And that's > > > silly :-) > > > > Why would you need NTFS without Windows anyway ;-) I really think it is > > NTFS development? Regression testing? For example I've never had Windows > in my life until recently, just for the sole purpose to _validate_ the > Linux NTFS code I write. Soon after my disk crashed and I couldn't recover Yes, we could really, really do with a fully featured ntfsfsk utility in ntfsprogs. It wouldn't even need to fix anything, just report errors... Unfortunately noone's ever written one. )-: > Also, do millions of device developer vendors (camera, mp3 players, etc) > need Windows to make their filesystem FAT? Surely not. How will you > delete, organize your things in your gadgets when (and if) vendors will > change to NTFS from the long outdated FAT? Are any of those people going to use NTFS? Eeek! Surely they would want to use JFFS2 or some other file system suitable for Flash memory... NTFS would destroy a flash in no time at all, mind you FAT would, too... > I think, this regrettable "You need NTFS, you Windows loser?" mentality > and _misconception_ is one of the reasons that the Linux NTFS support > didn't get very far. But please don't take it personally, your wording > was pretty polite compared to others :-) That is quite possible. Even I have never seen the Linux-NTFS project as anything more than a "windows->linux interoperability project". > > not the problem if Anton is right in regard that Windows will convert on > > mount. > > I'm afraid Anton is not right for all situations. If no-one checks I'll do > it when I have the possibility. That is quite possible. As I said I have no idea what happens with more recent windows and in fact I do not have access to anything beyond Windows XP... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ |
