Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > Hi, > [...] > At the moment this is the expected behavior if ntfs-3g is SIGKILLed > > (default signal for killall5; ntfs-3g has no chance to cleanup). > It means unclean unmount (actually no unmount, that one must be done > separately) and the effect is like a crash, power outage. Data can be > lost, volume can become inconsistent. > Well, about 15 years ago, I was asked to make a presentation of NT as compared to Unix.
Among the features I stressed the advantages of NTFS, designed like a database manager. Based on my readings, I explained that all structural data were dealt with transactionnally : before any modifications to the structure, before images were saved and the modifications could only begin after the before images were confirmed to disk. The before images were restored after a crash, so that the file system could not become inconsistent, though unended modifications and recent user data would be lost. I remember having pointed out that an "fsck" (I don't recall the exact command to check the fs integrity) was provided anyway, which tended to mean that Microsoft was not quite confident in the transactionnal capacity of NTFS. Now, seeing what you are telling regularly about an ntfs-3g file system becoming inconsistent after a crash or bad unmount, should I think that the transactionnal features have not been implemented in ntfs-3g, or am I missing something (or else am I overconfident in an old commercial claim) ? Note : I have been using ntfs-3g for more than 6 months and endured several power failures, but so far (knocking on wood) my ntfs partitions have remained consistent. Manu. [...] > Regards, > Szaka > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
