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[After Gutenberg] Nonetheless, I also recently read that the KNOPPIX - Live Linux Filesystem On CD offered write support for all virtual directories (i.e. live-installation of software without writable media is possible) in a running live system, made possible through UNIONFS, plus permanent home directory and system configuration can be kept on harddisk (even on NTFS). (Note: It is my understanding that NTFS is a way Windows partitions a hard disk and how SAMBA allows a Linux system to share Windows files.)

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Linuxhelp.blogspot.com] All about Linux: Mounting NTFS filesystem in Linux: NTFS or New Technology File System is Microsoft's proprietary filesystem used in Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It is a robust filesystem having many more features like encryption, robust security, support for quotas and so on which the FAT(32) filesystem lacks. If you are dual booting your machine between windows NT/2000/XP and Linux, and if you have a NTFS partition on your hard disk, then at some point of time, you might have a need to access the data on the NTFS partition from Linux. But since NTFS is proprietary, it is next to impossible to fully support it from Linux.

[Linuxhelp.blogspot.com] All about Linux: run file is a self-extracting archive. When the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run file is executed, it extracts the contents of the archive, and runs the contained `nvidia-installer` utility, which will walk you through installation of the NVIDIA driver.Once the installation starts, the installer will first check if it has a precompiled kernel interface for the kernel you are using. I have a 2.6 kernel which obviously had a precompiled kernel interface and so the installation went smoothly. But if it is otherwise, then the installer will check if there is one on the NVIDA ftp site - provided you are connected to the Internet - and download it.

[Blogs.msdn.com] Because we can : Transactional NTFS in action: Traditionally, filesystems have been transacted to an extent: each operation is done as an atomic transaction, and if the machine goes down in the middle, the specific half-complete transaction can be rolled back. Transactional NTFS means any thread can have a transaction - all in parallel - doing a large number of tasks - isolated from each other - and those sequences of tasks become atomic. It puts the application in control, and introduces a whole new level of power and parallelism. I'll try to return to these concepts with some examples in time.

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Posted at May 25, 2005 01:41 PM