Hi James,
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, James Shewey wrote:
> "Can I use NTFS as my root file system? Yes, this is possible."
>
> While it is possible if one wanted to patch fuse with an older version of
> fuse which supported shared memory mapping which was removed because it
> could cause deadlocks, or if you mouted files which needed to be mapped
> shared from a linux partition, fuse does not natively support shared memory
> mapping. This causes such high profile programs such as apt to function
> incorrectly and renders my distribution at least, un-bootable. In other
> word, This should be degraded from yes, to kind of or not without some very
> technical modification.
The intention was to answer the technical feasibility of the usage of NTFS
as the root filesystem, not as a filesystem for arbitrary use.
With the above logic, none of the existing filesystem would qualify as a
root file system because all have some kind of technical "shortcomings"
one could make as a mandatory requirement for his system.
> Just thought I'd let you know.
Thank you, the answer will be updated to be less misleading.
Regards,
Szaka
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