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re: filesystem journaling: Unless you were one of those crazy people that used fat32 in spite of Microsoft's defaults, filesystem journaling has been the default in Windows mainstream consumer OSes since the release of Windows XP using NTFS, which was journalled since day 1. (I am not counting Windows 2000 and before since they were not the default for consumer boxes).

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Then why did Windows take hours to fsck after a hard reset until Windows 8? That's the actual problem, even though I admittedly might have made a mistake in attributing it to a lack of journaling.

I was using Windows on a daily basis across multiple computers and this wasn't a subtle thing. In fact, I still regularly use Windows 7 (oscilloscope, can't update) and occasionally get "reminded" about this, even though I also remember a number of gnarly examples from my everyday computer use.

Most people just skipped it, and I did too, until one time it got into a state where no programs would run...

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