-=> PASCAL SCHMIDT wrote to CHARLES ANGELICH <=-

 PS> Hi CHARLES! :-)

 CA> You can only trash the file system that is in-use when the glitch
 CA> happens.  I'm assuming that you weren't using Linux at that time.
 
 PS> Note that journalling filesystems are not hurt by power
 PS> glitches unless the hard drive itself craps out. This
 PS> applies to Windows' NTFS and to a lot of commonly used Linux
 PS> filesystems as well (ext3, reiserfs, JFS, XFS).

I 'know' of this by reputation only.  I do use NTFSv5 for my W2K and
it _does_ seem less vulnerable to file errors but I credit "good luck"
with some of that. ;-)


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