In the Windows 9x days this was quite common and there were linux distributions that were installed by unzipping few hundred MB zipfile into C:\linux\. It only

In the Windows 9x days this was quite common and there were linux distributions that were installed by unzipping few hundred MB zipfile into C:\linux\. It only worked with FAT filesystem and the required umsdos FS module was removed from kernet 2.6.11 (and was marked obsolete for a long time before that). Having root filesystem on NTFS in any semi-sane way involves having kernel space NTFS FS implementation. Such a driver was introduced in 5.15 released on the 1st of this month.