This isn't just convenience, NTFS (Never The Same Filesystem) means not running
between multiple platforms. And a crashed NTFS is harder to recover than a crashed
FAT32. All I want to say is that they both have their good sides AND their bad sides.
If you don't work with multiple OS's on 1 system and a shared partition between them
the choice to make is definitely an NTFS, but there are other situations. If you want
to try it, try to execute an older Partition Magic (7 or something) on an NTFS in W2K
or WXP. But you better take a backup before you resize it.
Greetings
Deblauwe Gino
On 7 Jul 2004 at 4:25, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> This is Postgres. Our motto is "We care about your data". You would have
> to work really really hard to convince me that convenience wins out over
> safety.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
> Deblauwe Gino wrote:
>
> >Refuse to run on a account that has to much permissions: yes, otherwise you're just
> >asking for trouble.
> >FAT32 isn't good but it's more independent then NTFS which changes by each new
> >Windows if you're lucky, and by the next servicepack if they like it with of course no
> >guarantee at all for the compatibility. I don't like the safety of FAT32 (it can fail and
> >you can't set permissions) but it's the only alternative to insure running 2 different
> >OS's on 1 PC and keep working with it. You can give a warning...
> >
> >But that's only an opinion of course...
> >Greetings Gino
> >
> >On 6 Jul 2004 at 19:01, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Neil Harrilall said:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Is anyone getting this crash when installing on ntfs an partition or
> >>>only on fat32? I have gotten the initdb crash installing on fat32.
> >>>Used xcacls to set permissions and got no errors!
> >>>However if an app is making use of these acls, I would assume that it
> >>>will crash.
> >>>Will try installing on ntfs partition soon.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Running on fat32 is just asking to be shot in the foot. If there is a simple
> >>check to detect it I'd favor having initdb and/or postgres refuse to run on
> >>fat32.
> >>
> >>cheers
> >>
> >>andrew
> >>
> >>
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