[ubuntu-uk] Bug #1 and onwards....

[Avi Greenbury]

alan c wrote:
 
> In hindsight the biggest problem I had (emotionally that is) was
> recognising that even when there was a clear motivation for Ubuntu,
> there were very strong immediate influences indeed against (ubuntu) on
> grounds of an 'NTFS Drivers' myth. I can guess that he had simply not
> looked at SMART data, only the file system. I sense a whiff of
> prejudice. But then I think the relative seems to work a lot with
> Windows.

It's not a myth. NTFS support in Linux is reverse-engineered, and
fsck.ntfs is by most accounts not as good at checking or fixing NTFS as
the checkdisk utility in Windows.

-- 
Avi