From: "Geo." 

I've had NTFS corruption plenty of times, but each time the drive failed
soon after or some other hardware component needed replaced.

Geo.

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote
in message news:4121813b{at}w3.nls.net...
> Last couple of years I've had a couple of file systems (or important files
> in them) at work go bad, and without exception they were all FAT formatted.
> We use DELL, and they for some reason supply the computers preformatted to
> FAT, and sometimes they go past me to the users so quickly that I forget to
> convert to NTFS. After converting, not one single problem (file system
> related) with the NTFS computers. I wouldn't run FAT in my computers at all.
>
> So yes, it seems a lot better that way. Don't really know about security,
> especially since there are so many Linuxen out there that can read NTFS just
> like that - I don't know how well it can be locked down really, without
> additional encryption software or some such.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:41214aee$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Certainly I agree.  Does the journaling really make that much of a
> > difference on a non-raid single idea or scsi drive as regards safety and
> > non-file corruption compared to Fat32?
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> > news:koi2i0tvv2ncpq9m7a694qsdjj5pgtrlvd{at}4ax.com...
> > >
> > > Tolerance of BSOD's is a feature for me.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 07:17:54 -0400, "Robert Comer"
> > 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >The biggest plus of NTFS is the journaling, and what
that means is it
> > > >basically can take things like power outages and BSOD's
much better
> > without
> > > >corruption of files.
> > > >
> > > >- Bob Comer
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >"Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> > > >news:41208615$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > >> If you don't need NTFS for security, are there
other reasons why you
> > would
> > > >> prefer NTFS over FAT32?  I like being able to do
things with the
> Win2K
> > on
> > > >> Fat32 partition that I can't so easily do if it
were NTFS.  What are
> > your
> > > >> thoughts on this?
> > > >>
> > > >> Gary
> > > >>
> > > >> "Ellen K" 
wrote in message
> > > >> news:a09911.061078{at}harborwebs.com...
> > > >>> So, that's a big deal.  Who uses FAT any more
anyway?  (Although
> here
> > > >>> it's
> > > >> on
> > > >>> the C drive of my desktop.  But I made them
format the second HDD
> > NTFS.)
> > > >>>
> > > >>> > From: "Geo." 
> > > >>> > "Ellen K."
 wrote in
> > message
> > > >>> > news:sos4h0lciqhcjk25tgm2r02tuk07ihcqva{at}4ax.com...
> > > >>> >> That is really impressive.
> > > >>> > Only because nobody else has done it on
NTFS, heck on FAT it's a
> > > >> standard
> > > >>> > feature.
> > > >>> > Geo.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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