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by shmerl 4903 days ago
They could implement it for the sake of interoperability. Surely it doesn't worth it from MS perspective since they didn't do it. But the reason is not because they don't have resources or it's some extremely hard problem to tackle. The reason is that they don't care about interoperability until forced. That's their whole approach.
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marshray 4902 days ago
Seriously, how big of a use case do you think it is that someone has a drive formatted with some FreeBSD filesystem which they want use in Windows?

How hard is it to just copy the data over a network or mount the image in a VM running its native OS?

Note that support for the .iso filesystem was recently added.

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foxbunny 4902 days ago
Copy 2TB JSF partition over network sounds like something I wouldn't want to do... An easier solution is to just get a Live Linux distro, and another 2TB NTFS partition, and copy over the data... if you have another 2TB drive.
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marshray 4902 days ago
I know the world looks different when you're the server admin who has to deal with it, but how often does such a partition end up on a Windows server in the first place?
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