Re: [WinMac] Re: NTFS is great... When actually used!
Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 22:16:41 -0800 (PST)
> Alex wrote:
> >Our chief technologist decided on FAT16 so that 95 would be able to see
> >the NT drives.
Dan replied:
> Oops! :)
Oops indeed. FAT is such a piece of crap. But i think Alex's chief
technologist didn't have a choice there, as these were dual-boot
machines, no?
(Well, ok, with the aforementioned extensions that Dan referred to,
sure, but i sure wasn't aware of those things before he mentioned
them.)
But... aren't dual-boot 95/NT machines just a bad idea in general?
i've had no end of problems with trying to "share" a disk between two
OSes like that.
Linux/95 or Linux/NT or MacOS/Linux all work so well because they
_don't_ share anything. (Although Linux can pretty much read all of
those native file formats, HFS, NTFS, _and_ FAT.) But key to the
stability of _those_ kind of dual-boot systems is the fact that they
_are_ kept separate.
My policy is pretty much: one machine, one OS. And i'm not rich,
mind you. i just get slightly slower/older machines. You sacrifice
a bit in speed, perhaps, but god, what you gain by having two
machines that are up and available _all_ the time. And anyhoo,
how can you play with fun stuff like IP Masquerading, SAMBA and
Netatalk if your Mac or Windows 95/NT is also your Linux box?
Oh no! The secret's out. i'm a Unix weenie, disguised as a Win/Mac
guy. >:}
--Darryl
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