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Subject: Re: [OT] Development Release: Mandrakelinux 10.1 beta 1 [OT]

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 19:38:18 08/11/04

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On August 11, 2004 at 22:35:37, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On August 11, 2004 at 22:10:49, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>...
>>
>>The nice thing about journaling filesystems is that should
>>your computer crash or lose power, your filesystem itself will
>>never be corrupt.
>
>Yes, and that is exactly what NT is doing :-)

Oops, small typo. NTFS, not NT.

Thanks,
Eugene

>Metadata writes are write-though.
>There were lot of complains when users switched from Win2k to WinXP (or
>installed Win2k Service Pack), and some found that their disk operations became
>slower. The reason was that there was a bug in Win2k when for some disk models
>metadata sometimes went into disk cache instead. Of course that speed the things
>up, so overall performance went down when the bug was fixed :-)
>
>>...
>>Yes, but Windows Update doesn't update MS Word, or MS Excel, or your games, etc.
>>;)
>
>http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/default.aspx
>
>Or just follow the link at the Windows Update home page.
>
>Thanks,
>Eugene



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