Re: Windopes abject failure with NTFS filesystem

From: Peter Jensen (usenet_at_pekajemaps.homeip.net)
Date: 05/24/05 

Date: 24 May 2005 16:44:57 GMT

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OK wrote:

>> 10 years ago or so I had my ext2 take a shit because the power was
>> turned off during an fsck. Many power failures have occured since
>> then that did not cause failure of the FS. It is very rare for the
>> FS to *fail*. What can and often will happen is loss of data. 99%
>> of the time the filesystem is still left in a fully functional state
>> even if some files that were being altered are ruined.
>
> If occasionally ruining files is okay then I guess we don't have the
> same definition of "failure". NTFS never does that to you.

You deliberately compare ext2 with NTFS, despite the fact that NTFS is
journaled. If you want to make a *fair* comparison (I know you don't,
you're clearly a troll), at least compare NTFS with ext3. Oh, and NTFS
quite regularly hoses files, which this whole thread is evidence of.
I've only once or twice heard about that happening to ext3 for reasons
other than hardware failure.

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