There is a tradeoff between taking full advantage of one particular type of computer and taking advantage of a full range of them. That way once you make a decision to write portably, you know where the lines are drawn, and you can stay within them. This document is meant to help you to find out what constitutes portable Perl code. While most of them share much in common, they also have their own unique features.
It is not advisable though for portable media since most devices and other operating systems have a difficulty or are outright unable to access NTFS drives.Perlport - Writing portable Perl #DESCRIPTION Not only because of the speed improvements but also because of its multiple features. Simply put, NTFS is the better option when you want to deploy it on a windows computer system. Another one is disk quotas where a system administrator can specify how much of the disk a certain user can use.Ĭhoosing between NTFS and FAT32 filesystems is a relatively easy task. This could potentially free up some disk space but files could take some time to load. One of which is transparent file compression which automatically compresses the file when it is being written to the disk. The NTFS filesystem is quite the opposite, offering multiple enhancements that doesn’t only improve its performance but also its security. That’s why it has become the file system of choice for most portable storage mediums like flash drives, mp3 players, and memory cards. It doesn’t really do much of anything aside from keeping track of where the files are located. Microsoft holds the patent to NTFS and thus isn’t divulging any details with regards to the file system making NTFS drives only readable to Windows systems for a long time, though there are already some linux implementations that are capable of accessing NTFS drives but without its prominent features.įat32 is a very simplistic and fluff free system that is also very documented. It has since been developed and appears in more recent Windows version like XP, Vista, and the soon to be released Windows 7.
When the deal did not push through, some of the features in HPFS appeared in NTFS when it appeared for the Windows NT platform. On the other hand the NTFS file system was born from the HPFS file system used by OS/2, a collaboration of IBM and microsoft. Fat16 has been the standard for quite sometime until hard disk with capacities greater than 4GB arrived in the market, at which point Fat32 was created. The number denotes the number of bits needed to keep track of the files. Fat(File Allocation System) created by Bill Gates and Marc McDonald, is the older of the two and has gone through a lot of changes since its first appearance in the year 1977. Fat32 and NTFS were created of keeping track of all the files in a hard disk.
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