On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 03:46:52AM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 09:26:35AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > I have no idea why Microsoft chose to make the w2k version of
> > > NTFS incompatible with earlier (and other) implementations,
> > > but it appears this choice is costing some of their users
> > > their data...
> >
> > Linux NTFS corrupts NT 4 partitions too. The best would be to comment
> > out this dangerous write option.
>
> Why ?? It isn't marked expirimental for nothing. Maybe a comment 'it could
> eat you filesystem for breakfast' should be a nice one :-))
>
> On other words : NEVER use an EXPIRIMENTAL feature on a production
> system. It you do, don't complain.
Masquerading was marked experimental for years, but near everybody used it.
The word has simply lost its meaning. Also in xconfig/menuconfig it is easy
to forget that it is turned on.
Anyways, user turn it on, user lose data, users blame Linux (and rightfully
so).
-Andi
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