I'm waiting for the day I can share my ReiserFS partitons between Linux and Windows. It'd be a smart move for Microsoft to take but they are probably to egotistical to use someone elses FS. Either that or they'd do some lame embrace and extend shit so it still wouldn't work right. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Stephen Bosch wrote: > Buchan Milne wrote: > > > > Wherever possible I avoid Microsoft filesystems. > > > > NTFS is not that bad. It supports ACLs which linux does not yet. The > > biggest problem is that very few Windows (NT) users know/care about file > > permissions. > > NT's file access control is, if you ask me, a complete disaster -- of > course, it's not entirely the fault of the filesystem; it may have more to > do with NT's lousy security token model. > > Anyway, having administered both NT and Unix machines, I'll take the Unix > file permissions over NT's approach in a New York minute =) > > > The access control is not significant. If you mount a partition in one > > OS from another OS, you can normally override file security. If you have > > tried the Ext2fs reader for windows, you will see that you can extract > > ANY files you like from the file-system, without a unix account ! > > Of course -- but this is something that requires physical access to the > machine. With physical access to a machine you can do anything =) > > > What is more significant, and the actual problem here is the mapping of > > unix permissions / file attributes. When linux has full support for > > NTFS, this may be solved, since NT has rwx permissions on directories > > and files. > > Ah... whenever that happens... we won't get the specs from Microsoft, > obviously... > > -Stephen- > > > >
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