On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 05:17:51PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > I don't know much about MS, > but AFAIK, it was MS who designed FAT32. > > I'll quote Wikipedia, although it may be incorrect: These are good points, though the miss some of the depth of this issue. The main point I was driving at with this patch was to fix "Microsoft Window's FAT filesystems" (i.e. FAT filesystems which belong to Microsoft Window, which is decidedly wrong). FAT32 first shipped with MS-DOS 7.1, as part of Windows 95 OSR2, but it's a (relatively) simple logical extension of the previous FATx filesystems (16 and 12 as we know and love them today, I don't think the PC ever saw 8), hence the "VFAT" driver name ‒ calling FAT-anything a Windows filesystem would be a flat-out lie, calling it a Microsoft filesystem would be, uh, facetious. NTFS (as part of Windows NT), on the other hand, is wholly different WRT the scope and feature-set (it does borrow some layouting from FAT, but reading NTFS as FAT doesn't get you very far, or much). The replacing bit is also questionable, especially in a.d. 2020: while it is true that you cannot install NT on FAT (after a certain point? my memory ain't what it used to be), and must therefore replace your existing FAT partitions with NTFS during upgrades; Windows NT 4.0, the last product to be NT-branded came out in 1996, i.e. you could not install Windows on FAT (and, therefore, upgrade it to NTFS, replacing it) during my entire lifetime. Indeed, in $(date +%Y) we live in a post-NTFS world ‒ putting NTFS in the same class as FAT beyond "is a filesystem" is a joke, but in my haste and pursuit of a small diff I didn't consider the above. Please see below for updated scissor-patch. Best, Ahelenia -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] filesystems.5: reword ntfs description, remove FAT comparison Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man5/filesystems.5 | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/filesystems.5 b/man5/filesystems.5 index 301c8fb83..3727d7a7a 100644 --- a/man5/filesystems.5 +++ b/man5/filesystems.5 @@ -169,9 +169,8 @@ filesystem was removed from the kernel in 4.17. is the network filesystem used to access disks located on remote computers. .TP .B ntfs -replaces Microsoft Window's FAT filesystems (VFAT, FAT32). -It has reliability, performance, and space-utilization enhancements -plus features like ACLs, journaling, encryption, and so on. +is the filesystem native to Microsoft Windows NT, +supporting features like ACLs, journaling, encryption, and so on. .TP .B proc is a pseudo filesystem which is used as an interface to kernel data -- 2.20.1
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