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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2004-02-26 15:39:57
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Pawel Kot wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > > 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 > > I think your case is too rare. You suggest to quit Linux NTFS development because I don't need NTFS? Sounds reasonable, I'll think about it :) > I started looking at linux-ntfs when I got laptop from my work with > Windows XP preinstalled and wanted Linux there also. In other words, > Windows installed on my laptop was the motivation to get involved with > linux-ntfs. Yours is the most typical motivation but there can be several others as well like research, education, helping out, business related, whatever. > I don't think it will ever happen. FAT is easy and simple and as such > filesystem it will remain for such solutions for a really long time. If it > will be replaced by any filesystem, I don't think it will be NTFS, which > is too complicated for such solution. It's not belief, it's business. If Microsoft will provide a embedded Windows OS to its countless partners NTFS built-in then they will use it whatever would make sense. > Well, I need NTFS support because I use Windows. It's true. And I think > this is true for over 99% of linux-ntfs users. Probably quite true. But how about when it gets screwed and one needs to recover/save its invaluable content? You don't have Windows because it doesn't work anymore and all other $$$ Windows Recovery fails because of the damage type you have? This was just one example, there are many others. > I don't claim Anton is always right ;-) I also don't claim that we don't > need 3.x support. I'm just saing that if Anton is right, lack of the > support for 3.x in mkntfs is not really a problem. For development and quality assurance point of view it is a problem. For example I didn't add the "move first run of $MFT" feature to ntfsresize yet because I can't automatically test it. This can cause a shrinkage limit around 3 GB on XP/W2K. Coming new NTFS write features will also need it. Szaka |
