Hello Ivan!

22 Dec 98 10:22, IVAN TODOROSKI wrote to HERBERT ROSENAU:

 IT>   HPFS is extremely robust, so this rarely happens, and when it does,

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 IT>   I wonder if EXT2FS and NTFS are this robust...

No idea about NTFS, but if I remember it well, m$ designed both hpfs and
ntfs, and ntfs hexadecimal code is the same as hpfs...

As far as ext2fs is concerned, I have more concrete data, since I manage a
network of Linux machines. It's for more as reliable as hpfs, if not more.
I have never lost anything with ext2fs. I did lose a couple of files with hpfs.
let's be clear: this is over God knows how many years, and always in very
bad circumstances, (power surge before we get the ups, etc).

from a user point of view, they offer the same reliability, and that's all
I'm asking for in a file system.

From a programming point of view, I think hpfs has been completely
underused (and by that I mean mostly the extended attributes which are not
often used considering the possibilities they offer), probably because IBM
(probably for licence reason with m$) never made the doc/spec widely
available, whereas ext2fs is public.

Just my $0.2

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