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From: Pawel K. <pk...@be...> - 2004-02-26 23:54:47
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > 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 :-) Why? > > 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. Okay, if by 2010 NTFS will get used in the applications FAT is used today (compact flashes, external memory for digital cameras, phones etc) I'll go to Hungary and will buy you as much beers as you could drink :-) > 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 - invest significantly to the totally outdated, limited and 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? I wouldn't choose NTFS as it would be too complicated filesystem for such simple devices. I'd rather stick with FAT, it's mature and in fact does not require active development. Keep in mind also backward compatibility. Why x86 architecture still keeps old design, it could throw away some concepts and become much more reliable. > 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. But it's IMHO long, long time yet to go. take care, pkot -- Pawel Kot mailto:pk...@be... http://www.gnokii.org/ |
