[ILUG] NTFS is better than ext3?

[Satelle, StevenX]

2. Inode count/ratio: the number of blocks to use as inodes. An FS on
which you will be storing small number of large files (eg your mp3
collection) might benefit from a lower inode/ratio. Conversely, an fs
on which you will be storing many many files (eg news) needs a higher
proportion of inodes. If you dont know, go for a high ratio. (see -i
and -N options, or even handier the -T {news,largefile,largefile4}
options).

> john

Did you ever see what happens when an ntfs fs runs out of inodes (or not
inodes since it is windows, it runs out of fat space) auto-cannibalism. I
saw a 100gig ntfs filesys containing over 300 peoples profiles/files get
corrupted like that. You couldn't delete files, they would delete ok but
then reappear a second later. Run rm -rvf on it and watch it delete the same
file for hours on end. + the backups which appeared to work fine wasn't
backing up anything. The files names would be there but no data. The joys of
telling hundreds of people "no we cant get those files back"