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

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 06:30:27 08/12/04

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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 :-) 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 :-)

Cool, I didn't realize that NTFS is now a journalled filesystem.  I always like
to hear neat software development stories; I've been reading a bit of Raymond
Chen's blog and its pretty interesting.

Unfortunately you guys will never fix your GUI problems :(

anthony



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