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Comment by repelsteeltje

8 hours ago

...But no way can you wrap it into something that looks posix-y from the inside

Why would you want to?

  • From the article, first use case:

    > Example use cases include:

    > * Running unmodified Linux programs on Windows

    > * ...

    That won't work if the unplugged Linux program assumes that mv replaces a file atomically; ntfs can't offer that.

    • NTFS uses atomic transactions, that's the only way it has the ability to recover after a fault.

      You can read more if you wish in 'Inside the Windows NT File System' by Helen Custer, page 15.