XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 2/4/2025 11:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 02:24:01 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
   >   
   >> Given MS's FAT history I recall that I had been impressed about MS's   
   >> NTFS concept back these days.   
   >   
   > It’s bad at dealing with lots of small files. Also it’s too   
   monolithically   
   > integrated into the Windows kernel. Windows lacks a Linux-style generic   
   > VFS layer that can support a mix of different filesystems; everything is   
   > too heavily centred around the specific capabilities of NTFS.   
   >   
      
   The equivalent of Linux FUSE, is Windows IFS.   
      
   One of the first popular instances, was EXT2IFS which I had installed on WinXP.   
      
   IFS stands for Installable File System. Today, brave people "do it with Dokan".   
   The problem being, there is usually a version dependency.   
      
   Windows has *lots* of features. Remember: 7000 developers work there.   
   It takes fifty sheets of typing paper, to explain the permissions system.   
      
   If you want impressive, look at WSL/WSL2/WSLg . From when the first GUI showed   
   up (it was a bit glitchy) until it was running like today, took... one week.   
   This means they've hired some good people there. The graphics stack   
   is as tall as a mountain (it uses Terminal Services and "it doesn't even   
   flash").   
      
      Paul   
      
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