Re: Defrag for NTFS

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From: Ed H.
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:00

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bodo@interlog.com (Byron Bodo) wrote:

>In article <358351DD.5FE054B7@surfsouth.com>, kpadgett@surfsouth.com says...
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>>Hi all
>>
>>Absolutely right, NTFS can be fragmented.  Microsoft is buying the
>>disk keeper program to go with their NT 5.0.
>>
>>I'm pretty sure they wouldn't do that if they thought NTFS couldn't
>>be fragmented.  Studies show that is does fragment.
>>
>
>NTFS was an outgrowth of HPFS.  In contrast to HPFS, it's supposed
>to be a "journaling" file system whatever that means.  Also


It means in the event of a system crash during a change to a file,
NTFS can roll the file back to its last "complete" state.  You may
lose what was happening during the crash, but it doesn't leave the
file in a half changed (often useless) state.
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Subject: Re: Defrag for NTFS
Date: 1998/06/29
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