Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 08:49:37 08/12/04
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On August 12, 2004 at 11:09:14, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >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 But normal users could not afford the price MS was asking for basic stability. Instead, users were forced to pony up for products like the Win95/98. No fond memories there. > >>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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