On 1/28/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is that what we've come to? Running a Debian spinoff on NTFS? Amazing indeed. Next thing you'll know will be Linux crashing because of NTFS and users claiming 'Linux is as unstable as Windows'
To add my $2e-2 to the argument, this is not a big concern. How many times have you seen NTFS crash? NTFS is not FAT (*), so windows is not really going to ruin the image file (unless the sky falls hard upon the partition, in which case windows will die as well the user will know who is to blame ;-). And from linux's side, since it's only a fixed-size image file, there is no danger of damaging the NTFS either - the only access to NTFS is read-only to find the sectors where the image file sits. (*) Still, the world is crazy in trusting all their data to a hardly documented proprietary FS... -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (I read email only on weekends) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
