From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:31:43 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 2/11/2026 2:24 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:25:19 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Tue, 2/10/2026 7:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This is unlike the Windows kernel, where assumptions specific to   
   >>>> NTFS pervade every part of the system.   
   >>>   
   >>> IFS Installable File System (equivalent of FUSE).   
   >>   
   >> Windows can only boot from NTFS. It only supports mount points on   
   >> NTFS. It makes assumptions about the kinds of filesystems permitted   
   >> on removable versus non-removable media.   
   >>   
   >> None of these restrictions apply to Linux.   
   >   
   > Microsoft claims a lot of things about NTFS. In a lot of cases, when   
   > an article would come out saying "you can only do this on top of an   
   > NTFS", someone (small developers) would come along and prove the   
   > statement wrong.   
      
   Feel free to find counterexamples, then, where Windows was able to   
   boot off ext4 or FAT32 or something like that, or where you could set   
   up mount points on a non-NTFS volume. Or being able to do RAID on   
   hot-pluggable USB devices (I did this once on a Linux system as an   
   easy way to demonstrate RAID fault tolerance to the local Linux user   
   group).   
      
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