On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:19:47 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Personally I think NTFS is one of the things MS have done right. It is > fast, stable and has the features of the Linux FSes and even more. It > has journal, quotas, permissions, mount points, symbolic links. Does > any of ext, reiserfs or xfs have compression and/or encryption > capabilities? I don't think so.
No, and nor should they. Each filesystem implementing its own encryption
layer would be a nightmare. A separate encryption layer on which you
create any filesystem you like is much more sensible.
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Neil Bothwick
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