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Slaving away in a dark room, jw@qits.net.au.nospam (John Wiltshire) produced:
>Your Linux filesystem is still not fault tolerant.  My NT filesystem
>is.

No - it isn't.  I have, at times, taken an NT machine down hard enough 
that the NTFS file system was corrupted beyond repair, and needed to
to be restored from backup.

In 4 years of running linux I have _never_ had a crash take out my filesystem.
And this is in a house where cats quite regularly kick the power button
on the UPS, or the machine itself.  Someone else here pointed out
that NTFS only journals meta-data about files, not the actual file data.

Since I don't have need of a journaled file system, I really don't care
if NT's is half implemented, or if linux's is still in the alpha stage.
However, ext2fs has time and again proved itself more reliable _to_me_
in my environment - that my primary mail/web/ftp server is a linux box,
not an NT box.  (I won't even touch performance issues and the like)

>>Also, the notorious 4 lines C program locks up NT on Pentium-66
>>instantly. Thanks Microsoft for not making NT a multiuser system
>>because nobody can login into my workstation and crash it
>>remotely.
>:-)  Curious little benefit in a way?

About the only benefit i've seen to not having a multi-user system.

Cheers,

--Dg