[ros-general] Re: Interest in ReactOS

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> 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

that is a very good point. when an ext3 linux samba share is mapped to a
windows drive letter, windows sees it as an ntfs partition. presumably the
whole file system could be dealt with in this way courtesy of samba code.
if this is bollocks, someone please say so, i am in way over my depth in
programming terms
les