In <20000625135500.A12633@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 03:46:52AM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 09:26:35AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> > > I have no idea why Microsoft chose to make the w2k version of
>> > > NTFS incompatible with earlier (and other) implementations,
>> > > but it appears this choice is costing some of their users
>> > > their data...
>> >
>> > Linux NTFS corrupts NT 4 partitions too. The best would be to comment
>> > out this dangerous write option.
>>
>> Why ?? It isn't marked expirimental for nothing. Maybe a comment 'it could
>> eat you filesystem for breakfast' should be a nice one :-))
>>
>> On other words : NEVER use an EXPIRIMENTAL feature on a production
>> system. It you do, don't complain.
> Masquerading was marked experimental for years, but near everybody used it.
And it LOSES and LOOSING data. It corrupting data as well. Just like NTFS
with write support. The only difference is that in case of masquerading it's
mostly harmless...
> The word has simply lost its meaning. Also in xconfig/menuconfig it is easy
> to forget that it is turned on.
> Anyways, user turn it on, user lose data, users blame Linux (and rightfully so).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Huh ??? Do you really think if someone killed himself (herself) with gun (or
even kitchen-knife :-) it's gun's (ot knife's) fault ? It's THE SAME THING:
the user buyed gun, user put bullet in it, user killed himelf. What's the
difference ? Unix (and linux) was never designed to make user's life safe when
user trying to hurt himself (herself). You want such system - go use W2K
(where system will automagically put "right" .dll in place of "wrong" one)
and stop noising here.
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