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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