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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:19:47 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> Personally I think NTFS is one of the things MS have done right. It is |
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> fast, stable and has the features of the Linux FSes and even more. It |
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> has journal, quotas, permissions, mount points, symbolic links. Does |
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> any of ext, reiserfs or xfs have compression and/or encryption |
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> capabilities? I don't think so. |
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No, and nor should they. Each filesystem implementing its own encryption |
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layer would be a nightmare. A separate encryption layer on which you |
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create any filesystem you like is much more sensible. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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COBOL: (n.) an old computer language, designed to be read and not |
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run. Unfortunately, it is often run anyway. |
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