Though I generally agree with everything else you wrote in your
article, the above requires clarification.

Though the original NTFS version 1 debuted in 1993, journaling has
been available in NTFS since Win2K, and Vista's NTFS is version 6.
Windows XP has only NTFS version 3.1.

UNIX file systems (UFS) are even older; age isn't everything. :-)
And Sun's new ZFS (2004) is simply incredible and open source.

You can read this <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS> for many of the
NTFS details, but note NTFS has undergone many development changes
over its lifetime and the NTFS version 6 with Server 2008 and Vista
includes:

Access Control Lists, Alternate Data Streams, quotas, sparse files,
volume mount points like UNIX/Linux (additional file systems can be
mounted without the need for a drive letter), directory junctions (aka
Linux sym links), hard links, hierarchical storage management, volume
shadow copy, file compression, single-instance storage, encryption,
partition shrinking/growing, self-healing, and USN journaling. Pull
the power cord on a Vista system while it's running, wait 10 seconds,
power the system back up and nothing's lost; I tried it, it works.

As much as we may dislike Microsoft, they do have some smart people
working there who do know what they're doing. :-)

A reasonably-good general comparison of file systems is here:

<en....pedia.org/.../Comparison_of_file_systems>

Sun's open source ZFS (128-bit filesystem) is described here:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS>

and note ZFS is used by MacOS X Server and is also available for
Linux via FUSE. I am testing ZFS on one of my FreeBSD 7.0 systems
though I'll never reach its limit -- it's a zettabyte system and
can store 18 billion billion *MORE* info than present 64-bit systems.