Shriramana Sharma wrote: >On 9/30/05, pmoellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>some kind of "patent", as i guess they have that duration in the common >>"mode" >> >> > >I don't understand this. > > > >>No Reiser 'cause Windoze would not see it. >>But using the ntfs.sys file in a wine is sure a technique worth to try... >>I'll try it when i can. If someone achieves this, it means that "NFTS is >>done :-) >>Not reading Reisers, Ext2, Ext3.. but reading NTFS... and writing to >>it... very cool! :-)) >>20 years have gone so fast ;-) >> >> > >I'm not sure what pmoellon is trying to say with the above sentences. >Is s/he being sarcastic at MS? Does s/he not use Reiser or Ext on >his/her Linux system? Is it really possible to use only FAT and >actually run a Linux system? > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Hi Shriramana :-)
about the 20 years, what i meant is the following: i read that MS did put energy on building their NTFS filesystem for being "unbreakable" for keeping proprietary right during some time, not like FAT(16,32) (vfat). They made it, according to what i read, unbreakable with an estimative time of 20 years, for the OSS community (not only?) to be excleuded of reverse-engineering it to know how it works. The comparison to a patent is that as far as i know, a patent is valid for 20 years. So, by technology implementation, they would have a FS that would last like a patent, grosso modo. quote: Not reading Reisers, Ext2, Ext3.. but reading NTFS... and writing to it... very cool! :-)) 20 years have gone so fast ;-) I'm not sure what pmoellon is trying to say with the above sentences. Is s/he being sarcastic at MS? Does s/he not use Reiser or Ext on his/her Linux system? Is it really possible to use only FAT and actually run a Linux system? It not a question of sarcasm, it's for what we all work for: OSS. So having access to the MS standard FS, it is of great importance as many boxes still use NTFS. About my SUSE boxes: of course they run ReiserFS!! (Excepet for the swap) It could be Ext3, but surely not FAT... Cheers, Patrick
