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Comment by p_ing

8 hours ago

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.