Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>]

Glen wrote:
> CBFalconer wrote:
> > Glen wrote:
> >
> > ... snip ...
> >
> >>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.
> 
> Nah... I've seen at least an ntfs go bad.  Its just a normal filesystem.
> 
> They do have a file system with transactions now.  They were not the
> first to get this either.

Not according to Helen Custer in "Inside the Windows NT
Filesystem", 1994, ISBN 1-55615-660-X.  I have no direct
experience.

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