Hi Francois,

You wrote to Ivan Todoroski:

FT> IT>   HPFS is extremely robust, so this rarely happens, and when it does,

FT>[]

FT> IT>   I wonder if EXT2FS and NTFS are this robust...

FT>No idea about NTFS, but if I remember it well, m$ designed
FT>both hpfs and ntfs, and ntfs hexadecimal code is the same
FT>as hpfs...

If that is the case why have I seen reports the NTFS is much more
susceptable to fragmentation than HPFS?
In developing a new, incompatible, file system MS added some potentially
good features though (imho) they're not as good as the features they
managed to loose from the file system it was replaceing during the
re-design.

George

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