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.