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To: Michael L. Voorhees who wrote (15787)	4/26/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

NTFS is robust, Yah sure. Hot air cometh forth once more. Well, to be fair here, you have to ask "compared to what". It's ceratinly robust compared to any of the other Microsoft file systems. My own experience has been that NT crashes a lot, but the file system never gets destroyed even so. Somehow or other when you reboot it rolls its log forward, fixes everything up and keeps going. I just haven't lost data using NTFS...as a desktop file system. NTFS isn't as good as any Unix file system, logging or not, as far as performance or robustness goes, and certainly miles below the Unix enterprise file systems (Veritas et. al.). But as a desktop file system, it's great compared to the other Microsoft file systems, which are like high-school computer science projects (that got D's). This is the frustrating thing: Microsoft has trained people to think of garbage as normal software. Regards, --QwikSand