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-This is the file system
used by Operating Systems
based on MicrosoftCorporation's [WindowsNT]. Originally it grew out
of Microsoft's collaberation with
[IBM
] over [OS/2]. Many [OS/2] people were irritated that every time you booted WindowsNT
it would say
that the OS/2 partition was damaged
and would you
like to format it?
+This is the FileSystem
used by OperatingSystem~s
based on MicrosoftCorporation's [WindowsNT]. It fixes many of the Nasty Nasty problems
of [FAT32
]:
it has proper long file name support, permissions, journalling, and better data internal structures (zones of data with information about
that zone being stored at
the beginning or end, as most other FileSystems),
and is less prone to fragmentation. It also has advanced features
like alternative streams for files and transparent per-file compression and encryption.
-NTFS fixes
many of
the Nasty Nasty problems of
[FAT32
]. It supports long file names properly
, has permissions
, even has alternative streams
for files.
[NTFS] like pretty much everyone else now uses zones of data with information about that zone being stored at the beginning or end
.
+[Linux] can usually read [
NTFS] [Partition]s, and it can write to them sometimes without completely screwing them up. This situation appears to have improved as
many developers seem to be working on
the [NTFS
] driver
. Check out the [Linux NTFS Project | http://www.linux-ntfs.org/]. An intesting stopgap solution is [Captive | http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/]
, which runs MicrosoftWindows' own <tt>ntfs.sys</tt> so that you get feature complete
, safe read/write support
for [NTFS] volumes under [Linux]
.
-Linux can read NTFS drives usually, and it can write to them sometimes without completely screwing them up. This situation appears to have improved as many developers seem to be working on the
[NTFS] driver. Check
out the
[Linux NTFS Project | http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
]. An intesting stopgap solution is
[Captive | http:
//www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/], which runs MicrosoftWindows' own __ntfs.sys__ so you get feature complete, safe read/write support for [NTFS] volumes under [Linux
].
+[NTFS] originally grew
out of Microsoft's collaboration with
[IBM
] over
[OS
/2
].
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-
+Part of
CategoryFileSystem,
CategoryMicrosoftFileSystem and
CategoryBtreeFileSystem
