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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
NTFS is a pain, always has been.
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Having had more experience than I'd care to remember with CHKDSK/SCANDISK's "repairs" of a damaged FAT16/FAT32 file system, and the joy of determining whether the resulting FILE****.CHK files were something worth trying to preserve or garbage, I'll take NTFS in a heartbeat. At least there, file system repairs are likely to recover everything and put it back it its correct place under its rightful name.
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do prefer the *nix permissions model, but you can't have everything.
And NTFS5 supports *nix "hard" links, though the functionality isn't exposed by default and you need an MS or third-party utility to create them. That's been quite useful here. If you run Vista/Win7, symbolic links are supported too, but that's not sufficient reason to go near Vista and I haven't had justification to go to Win7 just yet.
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Dennis