[H-GEN] Getting Samba to read NTFS partitions

Robert Kearey mammal at optushome.com.au
Mon Mar 24 19:25:46 EST 2003


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Stuart Longland wrote:

> | Safest bet would be to have a fat32 partition containing the things you
> | want to access in both OS's. You may sleep better.

> If Microsoft bothered to look into using ReiserFS or Ext2/3 for  its file
> system instead of NTFS, a lot of us would all sleep better!

Neither Reiser or ext2/3 do fine grained ACLs, though these are coming. 
NTFS does have a lot going for it, but it's suffering from feeping 
creaturisms these days. Its journalling support, isn't.

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