[FRIAM] Backup solutions (was "stupidest question....")

[Bill Eldridge]

Raymond Parks wrote:
> Russell Standish wrote:
>   
>> One problem with this notion, is that Linux does not support write
>> access to NTFS (used for WindowsXP), except as a
>> "take-you-life-into-your-own-hands-you-have-been-warned" option.
>>
>> Restoration of data can therefore be difficult.
>>
>> This is not Linux's fault - MS does not publish the details of NTFS,
>> so is free to change things under to hood, with potentially
>> disasterous consequence for anyone trying to write to NTFS without
>> going through the MS software stack.
>>     
>
>    Actually, a colleague once talked to the writer of the NTFS 
> experimental driver for Linux via email.  As a filesystem, NTFS is 
> relatively simple, but in implementation it is inherently unstable. 
> Errors are unavoidable.  That is why Windows takes so long to shutdown - 
> it is going through the filesystem correcting the errors that have 
> accumulated during a session.  The Linux driver writer didn't have the 
> time and energy to find out all the error cases and develop the corrections.
>
>   
While I simply don't know with accuracy, this sounds like FUD on the 
part of Linux fans.
NTFS is used on millions of mission critical machines, not to sound like 
a marketing message,
and if you got errors every time there was a quick boot/power outage 
(i.e. these accumulated
errors left over and not burned to disk), I can't imagine anyone using 
NTFS or even Windows.

Also, I can't imagine NTFS being around for 11 years with various 
upgrades and having this error
situation persist.


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