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Looking at Longhorn

Posted by michael on from the proudly-imitating-all-of-Mac-OS's-flaws dept.

ShinyPlasticBag writes "Paul Thurrott has an excellent preview of Longhorn milestone five over at his Supersite for Windows. It looks like this may be Microsoft's equivalent to OS X -- the next version of Windows will have a 3D accelerated desktop and other graphical goodies. In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years."

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  1. Journaled file systems by gehkotek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    NTFS has always been a journaling file system..

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  2. NTFS by raxx7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Isn't the NTFS filesystem, avaliable for Windows NT, 2000 and XP, journaled?

  3. Isn't NTFS a journaling FS, too ? by rainer_d · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Not that having to run Longhorn on my desktop is a prospect I'm looking forward to, but still:
    NTFS has been there for 10 years or so.
    And it's jounaling.

    Rainer

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  4. NTFS has always been journaled... by rmdyer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    duh.

    Think first...yea, that's the ticket!

    -$.02

  5. Um... by ctr2sprt · · Score: 1, Redundant
    In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years.
    NTFS is already a journaling filesystem, and has been for some time. From here:
    NTFS guarantees the consistency of the volume by using standard transaction logging and recovery techniques. In the event of a system failure, NTFS uses its log file and checkpoint information to restore the consistency of the file system when the computer is restarted.
    I haven't been able to find anything which says when this feature was introduced, so I can't say for certain that it's been around since NT 4.0. But it's definitely been around since 2000.

    There are enough things wrong with Windows that you don't have to go making new ones up.

  6. Linux geeks? by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 1, Redundant

    In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years."

    we BeOS geeks have had this even longer. ;)

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  7. WTF? by jpmorgan · · Score: 1, Redundant
    NTFS is a journalling file system.

    Windows has had a hardware accelerated GUI since the introduction of GDI+ in Windows XP. OS X didn't have hardware accelerated Quartz until Jaguar.

    I don't suppose anybody's ever heard of fact-checking, though....