"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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"dennis@home" writes:
BTW NTFS is journaled.

You are correct. It is however the only journaled filesystem
I've come across which is unrecoverably trashed by removing
the power from the system whilst filesystem is in heavy use.
I suspect the journalling in NT is for speed, and not
resilience against unexpected system outage.

Try ReiserFS.

Thats fails even worse.

ANY file system can be irrecoverably trashed - and the disk physically
damaged - by yanking the power cord when its active with the heads
against the platters.

While what you say is technically true its not how modern hard drives work.
A modern drive should be able to finish the sector its on and park if the
power fails.