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Title: NTFS Chkdsk Best Practices and Performance Post by: Tanya on February 24, 2011, 09:34:39 AM NTFS Chkdsk Best Practices and Performance
This paper provides best practices and guidance when sizing volumes and Chkdsk execution times. This helps design a manageable system using Microsoft® Windows® operating systems. It also provides guidelines to reduce downtime due to Chkdsk execution time in the event of volume corruption. This information applies to the following operating systems: · Windows® Server 2008 R2 · Windows Server 2008 · Windows°7 · Windows°Vista® References and resources discussed here are listed at the end of this paper. NTFS is a journaling file system that uses database-like logging techniques in order to provide high-availability. Journaling file systems commit metadata changes to disk in transactions. In the event of a power failure or system crash, NTFS rolls back the uncommitted transactions and returns the file system to a consistent state. However, even journaling file systems require tools to scan the entire file system for structural errors and repair them. Windows provides an inbox file system check utility called Chkdsk that checks the file system and fixes any problems it discovers. This program can be invoked from the command prompt by running Chkdsk.exe Download details NTFS Chkdsk Best Practices and Performance Send via e-mail | Submit to Digg | Add to Live Favorites http://feeds.bink.nu/~r/binkdotnu/~3/Ktk84pwrKW0/ntfs-chkdsk-best-practices-and-performance.aspx |