[ros-dev] Idea for NTFS replacement

[Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood]

art yerkes wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:46:40 +0100
>"Andrew \"Silver Blade\" Greenwood" <lists at silverblade.co.uk> wrote:
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>>Just to chime in here... Something I've thought about recently regarding 
>>file systems...
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>>I believe there was going to be an ext2 driver in ReactOS. Am I right in 
>>thinking that complications arise because of the different ways in which 
>>security is implemented for different operating systems? 
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>It's correct to say that the security model wouldn't work on ext2 as it
>sits, but that isn't why we have troble with it.  Our cache manager isn't
>compatible enough for many filesystems to run at all.  Until we fix that
>security is very low priority from my perspective.
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Ah, I didn't know that was the case. It was just a random thought I had 
recently, anyhow. Thought I'd share it :)