From: Ellen K. 

THANK YOU, perfect.   :)

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:52:53 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote in message
:

>Ellen K.  wrote in message
>news::
>> Care to give me a succinct canned explanation of why everything should
>> be NTFS so I can pass it on?   (This is the stuff I can never remember.)
>
>File permissions and auditing are good, but to me the critical point about
>NTFS is that it is a journalling file system: Changes to the file system
>(like changing a directory) are transactional - they either fully complete
>or are rolled back. That is why a power failure is very unlikely to harm
>an NTFS partition. The power failure, of course, will cause data to be
>lost (open files), but you won't corrupt the file system with possible
>loss of a whole partition.
>
>Another important factor for some people is that NTFS indexes files and so
>can efficiently handle thousands of files in one folder (FAT has to
>sequentially search the directory to find a file).
>
>There are several other features that work only in NTFS, but I can't think
>of any likely to impress a FAT user. Well, perhaps I will mention that you
>can mark a folder as "Compressed" on NTFS. Files created in that folder
>will then be compressed which can save quite a bit of space with text
>files, etc (30% or more, if lucky).
>
>John

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