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Eero Ahonen wrote:
>> Formatting a huge drive with, say, FAT or NTFS only takes a few
>> minutes, but a low-level format takes an hour or more.
>
> Yes. Formatting to ext3 or XFS takes a moment more, since the system
> also creates journaling ;).
NTFS also creates journaling. The actual difference is that ext2 and
ext3 preallocate all the inodes, while NTFS doesn't.
> What it doesn't do is dropping the disk from the array if it works,
I would have to disagree with you there.
> And yes, if your house burns down or your roofs gives up and lets the
> water in, you do have a bigger problem than your binary data.
I disagree. Fixing your house is just money. Getting back the vacation
photos, or the photos of people who are no longer alive, is much more
difficult. :-)
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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