Hi, On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:18 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Actually, if you're lucky enough to have Win2k installed atop FAT32 .... > > Lucky? > > One of the things I was *happy* about in moving from Win98SE to Win2K > Pro was being able to use NTFS. IT's far more robust, and supports > the concept of file ownership and permissions. (It supports hardlinks > and symlinks, too.)
NT 4 wasn't the same as NT 5 and NT 6. They all (IIRC) used different variants of NTFS anyways. So it's not like there is only one universal standard. Only with Vista were symlinks fully supported. So that leaves out 2K (except with third-party hacks, perhaps). Yes, it adds features and tries to have security. But that's really only partially useful (e.g. over network or against accidental destruction). You can still break things via booting other OSes, but only if you have access to the physical machine. It's also less useful for a single user setup with minimal network access. And BTW, NTFS needs much higher requirements than other file systems, so it's not suitable for all devices, e.g. flash drives (exFAT). > I've spent way to much time over the years dealing with trashed FAT > file systems. CHKDSK could assign orphaned clusters to files, but > then what? Mostly, they'd be unusable and require deletion. When I've > had NTFS filesystem issues, CHKDSK has matter of factly recovered > orphaned orphaned clusters, assigned them to the files they belonged > to, and recreated the directory that had problems. The only time I > saw that not happen was in the case where a directory entry happened > to be sitting on a bad disk block. Despite its superiority, NTFS still needs to be defragmented semi-regularly. And recovery is not guaranteed. Yes, it's journaling, so that's good, but it's not perfect by any stretch. Though I'm not really saying I prefer FAT, but it is what it is. (A real minimalist wouldn't use a file system at all, e.g. Forth blocks. You don't need files just to "compute". It's all just 1s and 0s on the hard drive anyways.) > You *can* run 2K on FAT32. I *wouldn't*. It's moot because Vista (and successors) removed that feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
