[clue] NTFS logical structure corruption?

[David L. Anselmi]

Bruce Ediger wrote:
> Although I've been an at-work Windows user for 8 years now, I've never
> really experienced an NTFS oddity that required a CHKDSK (which is the
> moral equivalent of "fsck", right?).

Seems to me that I've seen chkdsk run if NTFS was not shutdown cleanly.  But I don't remember which 
version or how often.

> And why is NTFS so "magical" that alternate (linux) tools can't fix it?  The NetBSD folks were
> able to modify UFS to become ext2fs fairly readily, and at least a couple of Linux
> reverse-engineered NTFS implementations exist, right?

The NetBSD people had source code that explained how the file system worked.  Reverse-engineered 
doesn't mean completely understood.  FWIW.

Dave