[adrian_b]

NTFS might have been rock reliable in Windows NT and perhaps also in Windows 2000.

When Windows XP has been launched, NTFS was certainly much less reliable. Even without being affected by any crashes or other anomalies, the free space on the NTFS partitions of early Windows XP computers would shrink steadily, without any apparent cause, requiring a reformatting/reinstallation after some time.

Early Windows XP was very buggy. While a computer with Windows XP did not require one or more reboots per day like one with Windows 98, failing to reboot it for more than a few days guaranteed a crash.

Only after installing several massive service packs in the following years, Windows XP has become reasonably stable.

[SomeoneFromCA]

I live in a developing country. We have constant power blackouts, like every day. Anything not journalling cannot survive that yteatment. Even crappiest XP was better than UFS which absolutely sucked in that respect.