--- Mark Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/17/07, G T Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The concept of having a Linux on the same File > System as Windows is not > > new (it used to be an option with some distros). > However where you start > > hitting issues is with fundamental > incompatibilities in how the two OSs > > describe files and some basic file formats. For > instance in Open Office > > and Eclipse one needs two distinct environments to > work on documents or > > projects and NTFS has a very different security > mechanism to Linux, I > > think in attempting to create simplicity one well > may be in fact > > creating much unneeded complexity. > > Yes, I remember it was part of Slackware > distribution long ago (back > in 1996). You could install Slackware in FAT > partition (it was called > UMSDOS FS). The issue was, you paid performance > penalty. Unix > principles of file system with i-nodes, pointing to > actual file and > directory data, is very important. Not sure how NTFS > works, but I > doubt it uses Unix concept. > Also, currently you will normally have no write > access from Windows to Linux. > If you install Linux on Windows FS, Linux will > probably become > vulnerable to Windows SW glitches, viruses and other > nice things. (Of > course, if some virus uses low level access, it > could harm Linux FS in > separate partitions as well). > -- > Mark Goldstein
Corel also supported UMSDOS. That was my introduction to Linux, way back in 1998 (I believe). From there, I went on to using LoadLin -- the only way to get Linux to run in a logical partition at that time, as I recall. With UMSDOS, all of the Linux files were stored inside a single M$windles FAT file! Why couldn't we do the same thing, using a single NTFS file? According to Wikipedia, support for UMSDOS was dropped in the 2.6 kernel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMSDOS ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/index.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
