Another view:

When running MacOS X, you can share folders between OSX and a VMware guest 
running Windows.  MacOS X can read NTFS, but and cannot write it.  TSM (Mac) 
used to automatically backup NTFS, even though it could not restore it (because 
MacOS X could not write NTFS).  TSM was changed to no longer backup NTFS.  
However, think about this - if you backup NTFS from a MacOS client (because it 
is more convenient than running yet another TSM client in the Windows guest 
VM), if you could restore that NTFS backup via a Windows TSM client, that would 
be useful.  But the lack of cross-platform between OSX and WNT prevents this.  
This is a case where it would actually make sense (I think).

just my 2 cents.





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