[repelsteeltje]

From the article, first use case:

> Example use cases include:

> * Running unmodified Linux programs on Windows

> * ...

That won't work if the unplugged Linux program assumes that mv replaces a file atomically; ntfs can't offer that.

[p_ing]

NTFS uses atomic transactions, that's the only way it has the ability to recover after a fault.

You can read more if you wish in 'Inside the Windows NT File System' by Helen Custer, page 15.