Am Fr, den 30.01.2004 schrieb Al Hartman um 00:55:
Uh, guys?
Just as a potential user...
If I want a Linux Filesystem (which is INCOMPREHENSIBLE to me), I'll use Linux.
You are created an Open Sourced Windows Compatible OS.
Stick with compatibility as the first thing. THEN, if you can do something faster and better without breaking compatibility.... Then do it!
But, If I wanted Linux, I'm well served by hundreds of Distributions...
I think the question is not about Linux but about having a decent file system, allowing for user privilege separation, ACLs (plus goodies like symlinks, sockets etc). FAT is not acceptable because it doesn't support any permission setting (except for those crappy "attributes" which anyone can change at any time). Furthermore, journalling file systems are pretty much standard nowadays. NTFS has to be reverse-engeneered which the linux NTFS developers haven't succeeded in years. Plus it's probably covered by a host of patents.
At the same time there is a bunch of free-as-in-freedom, fully documented and accessible file systems available, mostly coming from the GNU/Linux universe: ReiserFS, ext3, JFS. A fresh newcomer is OpenBSF, developed by the OpenBeOS project.
If any of them is stable and suitable, why not use it? Apps should be filesystem agnostic. Only the kernel should bother about it. At least this is how it generally works on GNU/Linux.
Thanks,
Johannes