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

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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