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Why would you use NTFS on linux for anything other than occasional use?
by krzyk 6y ago
Why would you use NTFS on linux for anything other than occasional use?
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoWhy should it matter?
- Fnoord 6y agoTo make backups of data on a Windows partition. Playing games residing on a Windows partition. The main purpose I can think of though is forensics (images might contain NTFS).
- mimi89999 6y agoTo deploy Windows from WIM imeges. Windows PE isn't something one would even consider using.
- jlgaddis 6y agoI didn't know this was even possible but now I'll be looking into it. Thanks.
- q3k 6y agoWhy not? It's a good filesystem, why not use it?
- nwallin 6y agoIt's kind of a garbage filesystem though. HN gets all bent out of shape about minor differences between btrfs and zfs. Like how zfs supports raid5/6 but btrfs raid5/6 support is immature. Meanwhile NTFS doesn't even support checksumming, multiple block devices, copy on write, the performance on SSDs is garbage, etc etc.
- Dylan16807 6y agoAt least that 'garbage' hasn't died on me like the majority of my BTRFS partitions have. (Thankfully they all mostly still worked in read-only mode.)
- chasil 6y agoThe whole of the NT kernel was essentially a futurized implementation of VAX-VMS. Both VMS and NT had the same manager, in the person of Dave Cutler. Microsoft hired a large team away from DEC to build NT (which became the subject of litigation from DEC). I have read that NTFS shares common architecture with Files-11/ODS-2&5 (native VMS filesystems). Aspects were also lifted from OS/2. ZFS was developed a decade after NTFS. Most UNIX was still on FFS when NTFS was born. https://wikimili.com/en/Files-11 https://wikimili.com/en/Files-11
- p_l 6y agoExt2 was AFAIK a FFS-style design.
- nicoburns 6y agoIt's the only non-FAT filesystem with good cross-OS compatibiity.