Re: Defrag for NTFS

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From: Jamie Hanrahan
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 00:00

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In article <359d93fa.494462890@news1.Radix.Net>, johnl@Radix.Net (John A. Limpert) writes:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 02:18:29 GMT, nospam@usit.net (Ed H.) wrote:
> 
>>bodo@interlog.com (Byron Bodo) wrote:
>>>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.
> 
> From what I've read, NTFS does not journal changes to files, only
> changes to file system metadata. This ensures that the file system is
> consistent after a crash but it doesn't prevent the corruption of the
> contents of a file.

Correct.  

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From: jeh@cmkrnl.com (Jamie Hanrahan)
Subject: Re: Defrag for NTFS
Date: 1998/07/09
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