From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

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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