NTFS is always journalled
But it seems IO540 thinks that althought it is journalled it is not 'implemented'. I always thought that the recovery features of NTFS were better (i.e. it could recover it's state more quickly and more accurately than FAT when a file system integrity check was required).
Journalling is just one of many ways to help acheive this recvoery process, right? There are many non journalled filesystems that have reasonably good recvoery mechanisms (for example good old UFS).
IO540, do you have any more info? I've seen many NTFS volumes recover from an inconsistient state (and recover wihout data loss) but I've never (to my knowledge) seen a FAT32 filesystem go successfully through this process.
If FAT32 is really just as good at recovering from inconsistent state as NTFS then I would certainly like to know. At the end of the day, on a single spindle system like most laptops, data reliability is almost certainly higher on the prioirty list for most people than marginal performance imporvements. Just to avoid confusion I am not talking about taking that failed volume and putting it in another device to facilitate recovery, I am talking about the self recovery of that single spindle machine without using specialist tools - that is the scenario that matters for 99% of laptop users.
Cheers.