Comments on: why do Windows filesystems suck so?

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:45:25 +0000

Couldn’t agree more… I think I’ve had no less than 5 (major) unrecoverable data losses while trying to perform simple operations on NTFS partitions.

By: SirRichard

SirRichard — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:15:38 +0000

Your reasons for not liking NTFS are outdated. Partition Magic _can_ work with NTFS partitions now, as can linux (there is a kernel module which does flawless reads and writes). Additionally, there are many Linux Live CDs out there with the tools (ntfsresize, qt_parted, etc) to do resizing NTFS partitions. However, NTFS still sucks. It’s old and on the Win32 platform you’re stuck with it. On a Linux platform you have the choice of fast and stable (ext3) or cutting edge (reiserfs, jfs, xfs).. EXT3 is a lot faster than NTFS too. Try checking out a large source tree from CVS on WinXP, and do the same on Linux with an EXT3 partition… Then delete the huge source tree. You’ll find EXT3 about an order of magnitude faster for both operations.

By: numerodix

numerodix — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:58:32 +0000

Oh ext3 frags too, don’t think it doesn’t. Of course if you make backups, you can just tar /, format, untar. 100% flawless defrag. Takes about half an hour, depending on how big your partition is.

By: Nawaf

Nawaf — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:27:51 +0000

I agree 100%..

Plus, with ext3, you don’t have to defrag

By: Steve Dibb

Steve Dibb — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:15:54 +0000

I think there have actually been some very small (maybe minor, I dont know) upgrades to NTFS itself.

But yah, I agree. I think for the most part development is dead, which is a real shame.