From: John Beckett 

Ellen K.  wrote in message
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> 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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