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Why does a journal filesystem need to check disk?

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After I got the BSOD on my Windows 7 computer, I restarted my computer to find it asking me to do a disk check. I did other things in the meantime but it seemed like it took a few minutes. If the filesystem is journalled (I left it to the default which is NTFS) why does it need to check the disk af…

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Because journalling is not a magic wand. Coping with power outages and system crashes during I/O transactions doesn't become a non-issue just because a journal of transactions is kept. The part-completed transactions that were in progress when the s…

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