On 12 Aug 2003 09:06:32 +1000, Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 02:55, ed tharp wrote: > > > not 'really' true, As I recall, NTFS has been updated (in order to > > retain incompatibility)a couple of times, NTFS on XP is not exactly the > > same critter as NTFS on NT3.5 > > It still sucks nonetheless. > Too bad they're (M$) not smart enough to make use of say, ReiserFS... They stick with NTFS for the same reason they use a closed, proprietary file format for the office docs: to force users to use their OS and software. If they used Reiser, other OSes (including that dreaded "Linux") would be able to read/write to them. It'll be a cold day in hell when that happens. Miark
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