Re: disk drake

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 09:13:53PM +0400, Yury Umanets wrote:
> I guess, that ntfs in parted is intersting by itself, but, it makes 
> small sence because of the following reasons:
> 
> (1) Ntfs is needed only if you are using ntfs on one of yours 
> partitions, that is, you have windows on it.
> (2) I'm sceptical about that, anybody will use ntfstools (resize, check, 
> etc) under linux if windows present on the box.

Many Windows users would like to use GNU/Linux also.  (Conversely,
many GNU/Linux users would like to use Windows occassionally)
I think it is very important, just I'm short on time :(

> Distromakers are not intersted in supporting concurrent product (RedHat 
> is promoting and developing ext3).
> If I'm wrong, tell me :)

I think you're wrong :p

They'll support where there is money.

Historically, there hasn't been much money in supporting general purpose
desktop environments in GNU/Linux.  Hence, NTFS and Windows compatibility
hasn't been a high priority.  (It's too hard and too expensive to enter &
compete in that game).

I haven't been approached by anyone wanting to contract me to do it...

Cheers,
Andrew