On 11/10/2018 03:50, L A Walsh wrote:
For what it's worth, they also only support one of Windows filesystems of the few in existence.
--- There's more than one that support Extended Attrs?
Yes, several. Way back, OS2's HPFS was fully supported in NT 3.1, partly in 3.5 and 3.51, and removed from NT 4. More recently, the Dynamic Disks LVM in Windows Server 2000 and the next few versions (licensed in from Veritas) did. https://archive.is/20120529192523/http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/ve... That was replaced by Storage Spaces in the Win8 timeframe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8#Storage_Spaces I admit these are stretching the definition a bit, but if ZFS or Stratis count, then they sort of do... https://stratis-storage.github.io/ The very solid candidate, though, is ReFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS ReFS is a full filesystem and it supports pretty much everything that NTFS does and more. Win10 Fall Update (last year) removed the ability to create ReFS volumes from the basic mass-market editions of Win 10, though, so it's not certain if MS is going to pursue it. But it's definitely not as simple as "NT supports FAT and NTFS". Not even if you count FAT16, FAT32, VFAT and exFAT as different, which from the Linux POV they are. Present or historically supported NT filesystems are: * FAT12 * FAT16 * FAT32 * VFAT on FAT16 and FAT32 * exFAT * HPFS (discontinued) * NTFS (versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 3.0 and 3.1) * ReFS The last 3 all include Extended Attributes. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org