Re: [Sheflug] Apologies: Writing to NTFS

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:23, Jon Masters wrote:
> Of course you might know how to use HTML mail properly but this does not
> detract from the fact that both myself and many others instantly shy
> away from it with such instinctive reactions and conclusions about
> original senders which might not be justified but happen anyway.

Don't worry, we'll re-educate you eventually. ;)

It's interesting that some significant projects are now starting to ask
people to post in HTML. I expect the trend to continue.

http://lists.userlinux.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss

> | Why unlikely? Same platform. It's not that hard to call code in a
> | library. mplayer has been doing this for many years now, as has Wine.
> 
> I say that because of the underlying structure of the Windows NT kernel
> which kind of makes it slightly unlikely to actually happen.

The NT kernel is slightly more modular than I think you give it credit.
Filesystems tend to be easy pieces of code to port (given how complex
they are), virtually all OSes implement some kind of virtual abstraction
layer to deal with them. That's probably also why there are quite a few
projects to get ext2/3 support into Windows.

> | Besides, you're still wrong, because neither NTFS or ext2 preclude
> | you from having contiguous files. Google 'ext2defrag', 'contig.exe',
> | or 'defragmentation'.
> 
> When was the last time you actually defragmented your ext2 volume?

Your words were "this is likely not possible". I was pointing out that
it's merely work.

Cheers,

Alex.

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