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USN Journal?
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 03:53
by Jeff Bellune
Does XY access the USN Journal to speed up its file searches or list refreshes?
Why do I ask? Because CHKDSK is now verifying the USN Journal, which is something that it never did before I started evaluating file mangagers. If not XY, then x2 or DOpus may be the culprit.
-Jeff
Re: USN Journal?
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 09:52
by admin
Jeff Bellune wrote:Does XY access the USN Journal to speed up its file searches or list refreshes?
Nope.
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 15:16
by Jeff Bellune
Thank you.
The search continues...
Posted: 28 Dec 2007 15:24
by j_c_hallgren
When I first saw the title of this thread, I was wondering what a U.S. Navy Journal had to do with XY!
Then I did a Google on it and see that it's something related to NTFS, so as I'm a FAT32 user, I'd never seen the term.
Posted: 29 Dec 2007 07:05
by Jeff Bellune
Having spent 8 years in the Navy, those 3 letters could never mean anything else to me, no matter what Microsoft uses them for.
I have to re-cage my brain every time I use the FSUTIL USN command in a command prompt window.
Several disk image restores later, I'm 99% sure it was Norton AntiVirus (as part of NIS 2008) that activated the change journal.
BTW, if you are one of the thousands of anti-Norton people (like I was for so many years), you owe it to yourself to evaluate NIS 2008. I ditched ZoneAlarm when they couldn't get their act together in Vista, and compared to the AVG, Kaspersky and ESET security suites, NIS 2008 is a lean, mean, bullet-proof machine.
-Jeff