Re: Follow up -- Re: Files on XFS not safe?!

[Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Austin Gonyou wrote:

> It is wholly possible that NTFS could be like OpenBSD's filesystem, in
> that it is technically not "journaling", but is soft updates? This would
> offer the stability, but at a speed hit, which seems to be right on part
> with Windows(tm) usual stuff.  
NTFS does journalling, but quite different from XFS - they record the 
state of
a data structure before and after a metadata change - which makes it 
possible
to unwind transactions. There is a book on it, but I am not sure it is 
still in
print.

Steve