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Quoth · 02-13-2023, 08:35 PM

Back in 1999 I was dual booting RH Linux and NT4.0 so all of the user files for Linux were on NTFS. Back then Linux used Ext2, which was somewhat more fragile than NTFS as used by NT 3.5x or NT4.0. There have been a number of versions of NTFS and even as early as NT 4.0 SP6, earlier NT 3.5x couldn't read later NTFS. I also had an Ext2 feature on Win XP to read Linux partitions. Creating later unreadable files was too easy!

ExFat allows bigger SD cards, but not fancier filenames than on Win9x.
I think MS broke Windows NT by having win9x developers work on it. It's been going downhill since NT3.5.

02-13-2023, 08:35 PM	#8
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,341 Karma: 105899727 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Back in 1999 I was dual booting RH Linux and NT4.0 so all of the user files for Linux were on NTFS. Back then Linux used Ext2, which was somewhat more fragile than NTFS as used by NT 3.5x or NT4.0. There have been a number of versions of NTFS and even as early as NT 4.0 SP6, earlier NT 3.5x couldn't read later NTFS. I also had an Ext2 feature on Win XP to read Linux partitions. Creating later unreadable files was too easy! ExFat allows bigger SD cards, but not fancier filenames than on Win9x. I think MS broke Windows NT by having win9x developers work on it. It's been going downhill since NT3.5. Last edited by Quoth; 02-13-2023 at 08:37 PM.