Subject: Re: Changing from MSDOS to NTFS
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/07/2002 14:47:56
In article <20020307140628.CC3EF7B4B@berkshire.research.att.com>,
Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote:
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>When you're running Win2k, what does it say the file system type is?  
>Win2k can run quite happily on FAT32.
>

We should not encourage people to run WinNT/Win2k/WinXP with FAT32,
just to get read-write access to their filesystem from NetBSD,
unless they really need to. For read-only access, NetBSD can read
NTFS very well, and the Windows users get the benefits of a real
filesystem (one that has ACL's does not need a defragmenter every
week, and one that does not play russian roulette with your files).

christos