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From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
To: jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: NTFS repair tools]
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:11:20 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012101611.eBAGBKB15673@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord)  of "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 05:00:53 GMT." <3a330d39.53732447@mail.mbay.net>

jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord) said:

[...]

> If this was a business, and we were knowingly distributing software
> that was known to be dangerous, we would probably be risking legal
> action.

Debatable. It is marked EXPERIMENTAL and DANGEROUS, and not enabled by
default.

> Why are we distributing such severely broken software? Heck, we seem
> reluctant to include reiserfs, a pretty high quality, supported file
> system. And we continue to distribute this !@#$%... There must be some
> strange agenda going on to limit the use of Linux.

It is just that NTFS has been in the kernel for ages, and rotted. Nobody
has taken the time to remove it (would be a lot less than what has been
wasted up to now discussing the matter here...).
-- 
Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile                               +56 32 672616
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-10 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-08  3:27 Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-08  4:13 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-08  4:43   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-08  5:53     ` Michael H. Warfield
2000-12-08  4:54       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-08  5:04       ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-08  5:08         ` [PATCH] NTFS repair tools Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-08  6:06           ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-08  8:17             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-08 14:46             ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-08  7:37           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2000-12-08 19:01             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-08  7:50         ` [Fwd: NTFS repair tools] Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2000-12-08 13:19       ` David Relson
2000-12-08 13:43         ` David Weinehall
2000-12-08 14:34           ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2000-12-08 17:02             ` Michael H. Warfield
2000-12-08 18:35             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-08 14:00     ` Alan Cox
2000-12-08 14:27       ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-08 14:44         ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-12-08 15:08           ` David Woodhouse
2000-12-08 14:50         ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-12-08 18:33       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-08 17:42         ` Jeff Garzik
2000-12-08 18:50           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-09 22:03         ` Eric W. Biederman
2000-12-10  1:11           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-10  2:12       ` Ren Haddock
2000-12-10  5:26         ` Andre Hedrick
2000-12-10  2:34     ` David Feuer
2000-12-10  2:49       ` Daryll Strauss
2000-12-12  2:23         ` Jes Sorensen
2000-12-12  2:46           ` Wakko Warner
2000-12-10  5:00       ` John Alvord
2000-12-10 16:11         ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2000-12-08 13:55 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-08 18:31   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-09  8:00 Mark Sutton
2000-12-09 16:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2000-12-09 20:14   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-09 22:51   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-12-11 13:52 ` Xavier Bestel
2000-12-10  1:38 willy tarreau
2000-12-10  2:40 ` Jeff V. Merkey

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