[LMB] AKICOTL: Technical question OT:

[Mark Allums]

James wrote:
> Only because practically every OS supports it out of the box, and
> every device you could conceivably use them in supports FAT
> (12/16/32). It's become the universal filesystem that everyone
> understands.

That and ISO:9660.


> As for NTFS, as long as you don't do anything too tricky, the Linux
> NTFS-3G system is quite remarkable - they managed to reverse-engineer
> the majority of the NTFS format, and do proper read-write to NTFS.
> Very nice, very advanced, and most distributions are using it since
> nowadays your disk is probably NTFS formatted. Also why the release of
> MacFUSE (OSX version of the kernel support library needed by NTFS-3G)
> was very highly anticipated since it gave MacOS X full read-write
> access to NTFS. I believe the only thing it doesn't support are
> encrypted files and EFS.

My understanding is that writing to NTFS is limited to files already in 
existence, and they can't be extended.  So writing is still not very 
practical.  But reading is no problem.


> A reason why having a knoppix CD or DVD is useful these days - great
> for data recovery.

Exactly!  Especially the DVD, and you can, very carefully, save your 
environment to a flash drive, so Knoppix has become part of my toolkit.

--Mark Allums