-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:43, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Leon Brooks wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:54, Frederic Crozat wrote: >>> >>>That's a bit short, it's a useful migration tool. >> >>IMHO, no, it's a crutch supporting your use of Windows. NTFS resizing is > > Shortsighted.
I don't think so. > For a personal user, migration can be a short term thing. > For a decent sized company, it's very, very unlikely to be; a migrating > environment will very likely be a mixed environment for a reasonable > length of time. In this environment, such a driver makes sense to smooth > the transition process. If you need to rely on files on workstations in an enterprsie of any size, it means that your file management strategy is flawed. The opportunity should be taken to centralise files on Linux file servers, serving files transparently to linux/Unix users (via NFS etc) and Windows users (via Samba), allowing you to centralise backups, ensuring that failure of a hard disk on a client does not lose critical data. During migration, linux machines may also need to acces data on Windows servers, which is what the samba-client software is for. Migration from a poorly architected Windows peer-to-peer network to a well architected Linux network is possible (since it's possible without large licensing fees), allowing you to consolidate data management. Sorry, with a network of 60 machines in two locations, running a mix of Windows and Linux (both OSs as dekstops and servers), I have never needed ext2/3 read support under Windows. Larger networks should have even less need for this. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/RL2IrJK6UGDSBKcRAnwCAJ9BMBHOnuHGNO5g8xoriWhr5cxV7ACguEy5 VtNZF/dgsVpJx6sBbplmo18= =GVcG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
