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From: Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...> - 2004-02-26 16:46:39
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Pawel Kot wrote:
> Well, no ;-) but it is indeed very weird to work on linux-ntfs not
> using/having Windows.
It's very weird you say so :-)
> But if it would make sense they would already have done it or at least
> they would try. They didn't. Why? Because it's not practical. NTFS design
> is not for such purposes. These are someple devices with slow processors
> and small amount of memory. There's really no place for NTFS there.
There are trends like processors get faster, storages gets much bigger,
customers want more features, higher reliability, etc.
AFAIK, Microsoft has two main filesystems, FAT and NTFS. They have also
variants (XFAT, mini NTFS, etc). Considering NTFS is used today on 300+
millions of boxes and sooner or later every Windows user will move there
what way would you go?
- invest significantly to the totally outdated, limited and
basically long abandoned FAT (in favour of NTFS).
or
- tune, adjust the proven and robust NTFS to fit for the
future requirements?
It won't happen today, tommorow or even in the next year. But there will
be a point when using FAT will be completely out of question.
Szaka
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