The Logic Off Topic list

At 02:52 PM 12/14/04 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Windows has 2 types of files systems, FAT32 and NTFS.
>I have to create a dual boot to get GigaSampler to
>work with Windows Media Center, so my question is….
>
>Does Logic 5x or GigaSampler 3 require a FAT32 or NTFS
>file system?
>
>Why would I want one or the other??

Logic 5.x works best with NTFS on all volumes (FAT32 on all volumes works
too but don't mix them or you will get annoying delays when switching into
record).

NTFS is a decent journaling file system which is much less prone to
corruption - it places a small overhead on all operations but is vastly
preferable to FAT32 for handling large volumes and data security.

In case this is all greek - as I understand it,  a journalling system like
NTFS records what operation it is about to do to the file system and then
reports back when it has performed the operation. Should the system crash
or be shutdown during a disk write,  the file system will know what
operation was half complete and be able to recover without corruption of
the FAT etc. No "scandisk" and "searching for crosslinked files" on reboot
after a crash or power outage.

Regards,
Murray