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NTFS vs. FAT32

You prefer:

  • NTFS

    Votes: 93 93.9%

  • FAT32

    Votes: 6 6.1%
  • Total voters
    99
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codeflux

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My take on NTFS:

NTFS is great. it allows for very large partitions, it is almost as fast as FAT32, it allows for encrypted/compressed folders, and all that; but when it breaks - AND IT WILL BREAK ONE DAY - it breaks for good.

any computer that had NTFS on it that i used, had a partition crash at one point - usually due to power outages or BSODs, and i COULD NOT recover from it. had to reformat. when NTFS dies, so does your data.

Let me see a show of hands.
 
NTFS is more redunant than FAT32. In the situation you speak of, data receovery from that type of corruption would not have been possible no matter what filesystem you where using.
 
While NTFS is better than FAT32, it's a joke of a filesystem compared to even Ext3.
 
Is it possible to share an ext3 filesystem on a linux box so it's readable and writeable on a windows box?
 
you want samba. it should come with your distrib in binary form, or if you're brave like me you can compile it yourself. if you need help with smb.conf, post in the alternative os forum and we'll help you out.
 
codeflux said:
My take on NTFS:

NTFS is great. it allows for very large partitions, it is almost as fast as FAT32, it allows for encrypted/compressed folders, and all that; but when it breaks - AND IT WILL BREAK ONE DAY - it breaks for good.

any computer that had NTFS on it that i used, had a partition crash at one point - usually due to power outages or BSODs, and i COULD NOT recover from it. had to reformat. when NTFS dies, so does your data.

Let me see a show of hands.
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*horrific data loss memories flood back* slowly, sheepishly, raising hand.
 
Elledan said:
While NTFS is better than FAT32, it's a joke of a filesystem compared to even Ext3.
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Isn't Ext3 much newer than NTFS? It'd be one suck ass filesystem if it came out much later than NTFS and wasn't better, me thinks. Anyways, I didn't just post to clown your trolling, I was wondering why people don't write like Ext3 filesystem drivers for windows, surely some people would like to try them if they're so great.
 
devil22 said:
Isn't Ext3 much newer than NTFS? It'd be one suck ass filesystem if it came out much later than NTFS and wasn't better, me thinks.
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NTFS dates back to the first versions of Windows NT (probably even earlier). Win2k used an updated version of NTFS, just like WinXP is using the latest version of NTFS. NTFS is therefore an evolving (backwards compatible) filesystem.
Ext3 is basically Ext2 with journaling added. The foundation of Ext3 is therefore at least as old as NTFS's. Ext3's spec was finished before WinXP was released, so Ext3 is at most about as old as the current version of NTFS.

They *should* be about equal in performance and features for this reason.
Anyways, I didn't just post to clown your trolling, I was wondering why people don't write like Ext3 filesystem drivers for windows, surely some people would like to try them if they're so great.
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Windows is proprietary. To gain access to its most secret APIs and then figure out how to use them requires a lot of time and effort. There are some drivers to allow Windows to use other filesystems (including NTFS support for Win9x), but they're either non-free or buggy. Or both.

Most people who like Ext3 run OSs like Linux, *BSD or similar (which, ironically, have no problems reading FAT32 and NTFS).
 
For Video editing I use NTFS, just becase FAT32 does not allow 4gig files...
 
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm

NTFS all the way.

back before there were tools to read and fix NTFS (say 3 years ago) I would have agreed, but now NTFS is better than Fat32 in every way. (even fixability/recoverability) Unless you are still running DOS. (WinME, same thing)

==>Lazn
 
onewheeldoin200 said:
ntfs all the way. I haven't used fat32 since windows 98 :)
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When I run Windows (other than my single HD that has 98 SE on it) I go NTFS (and recommend that others do the same).

Reason 1: Stability. NTFS keeps on running under situations that will make any version of FAT gag.
Reason 2: Zippier file searching. Inside every copy of Windows 2000 and later (and this includes Windows XP Home Edition) is Microsoft Index Server, the built-in search worm for your data. While it works with other filesystems, it works *better* using the journaling support built into NTFS (understandable, since it was designed around NTFS in the first place).
Reason 3: Compatability with *seriously silly sized* data storage. 400 GB hard drives. 2 TB RAID arrays. And we're only talking about desktop PCs of today. Unlike FAT32 (let alone FAT16), NTFS more than easily accomodates such file sizes (and remains ready for file and disk sizes to get even sillier in the future; NTFS 5.1 has a basic partition limit in the *petabyte* range).
 
Before I probably would have said Fat32 just because gibson research didn't have a spinrite (spinrite > * for hd repair) that would take care of NTFS. But today, lo and behold, I look on gibson research's website and BAM! Spinrite V 6.0 has been released!

http://grc.com/spinrite.htm
 
botboy said:
Before I probably would have said Fat32 just because gibson research didn't have a spinrite (spinrite > * for hd repair) that would take care of NTFS. But today, lo and behold, I look on gibson research's website and BAM! Spinrite V 6.0 has been released!

http://grc.com/spinrite.htm
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FYI Gibson is a crackpot. Spinrite is nice but don't listen to a word he says about anything else.
 
GaleForce said:
Who the hell would vote for FAT32 that shit is outdated. :D
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Same people who refuse to upgrade to XP because "ME does everything they want." :D
 
Atragon said:
Is it possible to share an ext3 filesystem on a linux box so it's readable and writeable on a windows box?
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Once you've started using Linux, why would you want to go back to Windows?
 
ameoba said:
Once you've started using Linux, why would you want to go back to Windows?
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games, photoshop, winamp. (dont even SAY mime/that crappy opensource editor/XMMS) :p
 
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