Hello Alex and наб On 12/18/20 4:30 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > From: наб <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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. > > Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks. Patch applied. I cleaned up the commit message a little (removed leading white spaces, formatted to 66 columns as per the man-pages norm). Cheers, Michael > --- > man5/filesystems.5 | 5 ++--- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man5/filesystems.5 b/man5/filesystems.5 > index 71be05230..7f2e02096 100644 > --- a/man5/filesystems.5 > +++ b/man5/filesystems.5 > @@ -166,9 +166,8 @@ you need special programs, which can be found at > 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 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
