Re: 2.2.0 wishlist

Matti E Aarnio (mea@mea.cc.utu.fi)
Sat, 15 Jun 1996 20:17:32 +0300 (EET DST)


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> Now I've browsed through the source for the ntfs readonly support module,
> and there is no decryption involved at all, so I can only concur with you.
> Micro$punge tries to claim that NTFS is a secure filesystem, bu that is
> only when NT is the one and only OS available to the machine. As soon as
> anything else gets hard access to the disk (i.e. not networked) there is
> no protection at all.

Well, "secure" can mean so many things. It may mean also
"stability", robustness", .. (Technical persons are
usually carefull, but marketroids...)

One of the things wished for EXT2 is extra robustness,
which can be achieved with writing the meta-data, and
data in correct sequential order to the disk.
... well, all that every database system programmer
have always known to be needed for getting reliable
databases, along with change rollbacks ...

And I too do have my reasons to need NTFS r/w ability..
...
> //Anders Broberg

/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>