What is File System Journaling?
File system journaling is extraneous metadata written to an NTFS partition. During bulk operations, or operations with a higher latency – such as those a SAN drive, unusual behavior can be observed on a windows system. Typically this results in instability; running the “sync” command can flush the buffer to disk in some cases. However, if you are flushing bulk* data to a high latency disk, it is best to disable this feature at system startup as it is enabled by default on modern windows systems.
1 | fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0 |
1 2 3 4 | PS C:\> fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify NTFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Disabled) ReFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Disabled) PS C:\> |
