Re: About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:25:57PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: > Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were talking > about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on > is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being done. Fo

Re: About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 3/29/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: > Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were > talking > about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on > is what are the various file systems doing when a format is bei

Re: About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Ivan Voras
Andrew Falanga wrote: > Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were > talking > about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on > is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being done. > For > example, at home, my PC has 2 80gb

Re: About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 29, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: Both drives are similar in capability. They are both 7200 rpm drives, etc. So what is so much different about NTFS from FFS? All sorts of things. :-) Are the file systems really that different that MS's system is simply dog slow, or is

About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Andrew Falanga
Yesterday while working on a problem at work, a colleague and I were talking about the various file systems and something that I have always wondered on is what are the various file systems doing when a format is being done. For example, at home, my PC has 2 80gb drives. One for Windows and the