On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:11:47 +0100 <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 03:47:12PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Microsoft changes the system required to kill the fast-boot every > > > so often, almost surely to make it difficult for users of Linux > > > to access Windows from the Linux system. > > > > That seems highly unlikely: it's a tiny number of users, and not > > only they're not a threat but annoying them won't bring any benefit > > to MS. > > This is a pattern which I like to call "emergent evil". Most likely > nobody does it on purpose, yet it happens often enough to annoy > competing ecosystems. Magic! >
NTFS has been NTFS since the 90s, while Linux has had ext2, ext3, ext4, Reiser among other filesystems. Is it not likely that 'NTFS' has really been a similar parade of different filesystems with each version of Windows retaining the code to read previous versions? Occam's Razor? -- Joe
