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Re: NTFS support moving right along

  • Subject: Re: NTFS support moving right along
  • From: Handover Phist <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:32:00 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Shaw Residential Internet
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On 2007-01-26, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __/ [ Handover Phist ] on Friday 26 January 2007 23:17 \__
>> 
>> And all are available in the Debian repositories.
>
> Enjoy it while it's maintained. NTFS is a dying breed that won't be prevalent
> for many years to come. WinFS is just an abstraction, so it will suffer from
> the same deficiencies such as fragmentation.

With Ballmer at the helm, the OS they make will probably go the way of
the Dodo. For now though it means that scanners such as ClamAV that run
on live distros will be able to remove Windows viruses on NTFS
filesystems. For us techies, that's a beautiful thing!

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