"D. Stimits" wrote:
> I'm curious what kind of journaling is used with NTFS, if anyone knows?
> I assume it is probably meta.
It's meta, and "overly aggressive" in recovery. I.e., I've had two
production NT 4.0 servers go to the journal when they should have done a
full chkdsk instead. Both times the filesystems were toasted. Those
were the last two NT servers I ever installed.
NTFS is based on OS/2's HPFS from IBM. And from what I've heard
(*DISCLAIMER*: I could be spreading unintentional FUD here), IBM's JFS
is more of the same. I guess it is just a design consideration.
I've been running Ext3 since early 2000 on over 100 systems, and XFS
since February of this year on over a dozen. What I've always liked
about Ext3 is that it's not shy to go to an fsck. Since I haven't used
XFS long enough, nor completely understand its approach, I cannot
comment. But I haven't had an issue with XFS yet either.
-- TheBS
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