Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18 | Date | Sun, 9 Jun 2002 21:58:22 -0400 (EDT) |
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Nicholas Miell writes: > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 18:01, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>> You don't get a shared filesystem that way. Windows would >> not be able to see the files created by Linux. You'd get stuck >> using the ext2 resizer all the time. You couldn't even move >> a file from ext2 to vfat without having enough disk space for >> it in both places. > > That's not any different than having seperate VFAT and ext2 > partitions in a standard dual-boot situation.
Sure. That obviously sucks; Linux can do better. It's important to make a transition to Linux as painless as possible. Nobody considering an OS change likes the feeling that their data files are trapped on one side or the other.
I remember the screams when umsdos support was dropped from most distributions. It would be great to have a modern substitute for umsdos. FAT32, NTFS, and HFS+ are what people get with their hardware.
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