On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > If NTFS driver in the Linux kernel is filling that [lstat information > > which Windows does not provide] with zeroes the same way then there > > won't be differences, right? > > Maybe. Although I am quite certain that you'd break something by that. Clarification: I am not a filesystem programmer, and as such do not know about this issue as much as I would like. But I am quite confident that inodes are an important tool to provide performance. Or something else. Anyway, I think it is rarely advisable to imitate MS Windows, and as I made clean, Marco's particular situation does not seem relevant to me. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html