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ArcadEd:

--- Quote from: SirPoonga on November 04, 2005, 04:48:32 pm ---You know NTFS is a journaling file system and can handle just being turned off.

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Just to clarify, can or can't?

I always thought it was bad to just shutoff a NTFS machine.  But I do know, like papas said, when I hit the power button on my xp machine it automatically goes through the shutdown process unless I actually hold it down to kill the power.

quarterback:
[code]NTFS is a journaling file system that uses database-like logging techniques in order to provide increased availability. Journaling file systems commit metadata changes to the file system in transactions. In the event of a power failure or system crash, NTFS quickly rolls back the uncommitted transactions and so is quickly able to return the filesystem back to a consistent state

ArcadEd:
Great, thanks :).

PacManFan:
It's not safe to just power off XP, which has a NTFS filesystem,

 I had to reboot my laptop the other week because it was acting really slow and sluggish. The task manager took like 2 minutes to appear, and I was in the process of trying to shut down. I got impatient, and did a hard reset with the power button.

Windows XP started to reboot, and then it went to the BSOD, and into an endless cycle of rebooting.
-Safe mode didn't work.
-command prompt didn't work

I had to build a Bart's recovery disk on another computer, and run a scandisk/fixdisk on my system to fix it.

-PMF

Lilwolf:
I think the answer is DOS and Linux. 

NTFS is suppost to be... but just like windows is suppost to be reliable.

Linux changed it FS about 7 years ago (time??) and now wont be effected by turnoffs. 

But this assumes your not writing a second at the moment you turn off the computer.  No FS will change that.

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