Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>]

Glen wrote:
> 
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> 
> I worked at a windows only PC shop for a very short time recently.  For
> example some Windows PC hardware techs will not know what you mean if
> you refer to the "filesystem".  They know "FAT", "FAT32", and "NTFS" but
> they may not know a filesystem is a general concept that most OS have.
> One guy was talking about Unix (which he probably has only read about
> not used) and refered to the unix filesystem as "Unix NTFS"!!
> 
> God help him get a clue!  Unix predates NT by about two decades.  They
> did not copy NTFS, NTFS copied unix.  [NTFS uses the same basic method
> to access files as the standard unix machine does]

I have the impression that the unique thing about NTFS is the
database treatment of the filesystem proper, with 'transactions'
protecting the critical relationships.  At least according to what
I read about it six to eight years ago.

This explains, to me, why it is easy to provide r/o access to an
NTFS system, but hard to provide write access.

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