Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dave Cinege" <> | Date | Mon, 19 Jan 98 16:16:21 -0500 | Subject | Re: 3.0 wishlist Was: Overview of 2.2.x goals? |
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On Mon, 19 Jan 1998 10:08:09 +0000 (GMT), Alan Cox wrote:
>> > * R/W ntfs would be of use to many people. >> That might not be doable. According to the comments in the ntfs source, it >> is based largely on guesswork. Guesswork is fundementaly unsafe. > >That won't change. If you think microsoft are going to tell people how their >stuff works and risk fair competition..
I don't understand the point to this anyhow. Write a full ext2 r/w implementation for NT, like was done with OS/2. Now that I use this I could care less about R/W HPFS support.
Don't work towards a closed spec. Try to get away from it.
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