Develop using FAT32?

[clintonG]

I'd be interested in comments pro or con about using -- or not using -- the
FAT32 file system for ASP.NET development and testing.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Clinton,

What can be the differences in your opinion?

Cor

 

[clintonG]

AFIK Fat32 has no security meaning anybody and anything can access any
resource on a Fat32 file system. Would simply installing the .NET Framework
on that file system provision the ASP.NET Machine Account? I've never used a
Fat32 file system but I have read comments claiming Fat32 it is not as
reliable or stable as NTFS.

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[Cor Ligthert]

AFIK Fat32 has no security meaning anybody and anything can access any

resource on a Fat32 file system. Would simply installing the .NET
Framework
on that file system provision the ASP.NET Machine Account? I've never used
a
Fat32 file system but I have read comments claiming Fat32 it is not as
reliable or stable as NTFS.

<%= Clinton Gallagher

Clinton,

When you do it well, than nobody can access your drives, what you tell is
when somebody plugs in a floppy in your station and that needs another kind
of protection.

On the otherhand with you web application you need a 24 hours secure
filesystem. In my opinion is that better assured with NTFS than with Fat32.

However just my thought,

Cor.

 

[Greg Burns]

Here is just one con, (there are probably many more).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconWebAccessMethod.asp

If you create your Web application using FrontPage access on a server with a
FAT or FAT32 partition, you will not be able to use source control. This is
because the FAT partition does not allow for full security functionality, so
all operations are performed in the context of the same guest account. All
source control operations are performed in the context of this anonymous
user (IUSR_Machinename). This can incorrectly cause your files to appear to
be exclusively checked out to another user when you attempt to perform
check-in or check-out operations. To resolve this problem, convert your FAT
partition to NTFS file system.

Greg

 

[clintonG]

I see your point and have been using NTFS but I simply wondered if there
were any issues putting Fat32 on a machine used for testing ASP.NET
applications. Thanks for your comments Cor...

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[clintonG]

Thanks for comments and the resource Greg. The machine is only going to be
used for testing ASP.NET applications and will be configured with Windows
2000 so I can also test sites with IE 5.

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