Reply to post: I suppose it wouldn't be too much to ask to go the other way?

A beefy Linux 5.14-rc2 and light at the end of the tunnel for Paragon's NTFS driver

martinusher Silver badge

I suppose it wouldn't be too much to ask to go the other way?

Microsoft has shown very little inclination to build drivers that know how to work with non-Microsoft filesystems. I suppose its a combination of 'not invented here' and 'still wedded to drive letters' plus their other idiosyncrasies (like using the escape character as a path separator and a lack of soft or hard links) which makes it difficult for them to design mountable filesystems.

Its really corporate petulance (IMHO) -- Cygwin cracked the problem of matching Linux to Windows decades ago.

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