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

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 08:09:14 08/12/04

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On August 12, 2004 at 09:30:27, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>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.

It was such from the day one. NT 3.1 was released in 1993 with first version of
NTFS.

Thanks,
Eugene

>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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