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| author | наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> | 2020-12-18 16:30:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-12-20 15:42:25 +0100 |
| commit | 1f8e17279093c899716cf407b92a3fd028262acc (patch) | |
| tree | 647a7c811d571e3e377be1b8280abb4b699286d2 /man5/filesystems.5 | |
| parent | f5bb7e8e4d97cf20a138ea7c37515e123f872109 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-1f8e17279093c899716cf407b92a3fd028262acc.tar.gz | |
filesystems.5: wfix: ntfs: remove FAT comparison
The main point I was driving at with this patch was to fix
"Microsoft Window's FAT filesystems" (i.e., FAT filesystems which
belong to Microsoft Windows, which is decidedly wrong).
FAT32 first shipped with MS-DOS 7.1, as part of Windows 95 OSR2,
but it's a (relatively) simple logical extension of the previous
FATx filesystems (16 and 12 as we know and love them today, I
don't think the PC ever saw 8), hence the "VFAT" driver name ‒
calling FAT-anything a Windows filesystem would be a flat-out lie,
calling it a Microsoft filesystem would be, uh, facetious.
NTFS (as part of Windows NT), on the other hand, is wholly
different WRT the scope and feature-set (it does borrow some
layouting from FAT, but reading NTFS as FAT doesn't get you very
far, or much).
The replacing bit is also questionable, especially in a.d. 2020:
while it is true that you cannot install NT on FAT (after a
certain point? my memory ain't what it used to be), and must
therefore replace your existing FAT partitions with NTFS during
upgrades; Windows NT 4.0, the last product to be NT-branded came
out in 1996, i.e. you could not install Windows on FAT (and,
therefore, upgrade it to NTFS, replacing it) during my entire
lifetime.
Indeed, in $(date +%Y) we live in a post-NTFS world ‒ putting NTFS
in the same class as FAT beyond "is a filesystem" is a joke.
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5/filesystems.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/filesystems.5 | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man5/filesystems.5 b/man5/filesystems.5 index 71be05230b..7f2e02096c 100644 --- a/man5/filesystems.5 +++ b/man5/filesystems.5 @@ -166,9 +166,8 @@ you need special programs, which can be found at is the network filesystem used to access disks located on remote computers. .TP .B ntfs -replaces Microsoft Window's FAT filesystems (VFAT, FAT32). -It has reliability, performance, and space-utilization enhancements -plus features like ACLs, journaling, encryption, and so on. +is the filesystem native to Microsoft Windows NT, +supporting features like ACLs, journaling, encryption, and so on. .TP .B proc is a pseudo filesystem which is used as an interface to kernel data |