Today's Featured Article - NTFS

• FireIce

  27 Aug 06, 18:32

  NTFS or New Technology File System is the standard file system of Windows NT and its descendants: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.
  
  NTFS replaced Microsoft's previous FAT file system, used in MS-DOS and early versions of Windows. NTFS has several improvements over FAT such as improved support for metadata and the use of advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability and disk space utilization plus additional extensions such as security access control lists and file system journaling. The exact specification is a trade secret of Microsoft.
  
  NTFS has five versions: v1.0, v1.1 and v1.2 found in NT 3.51 and NT 4, v3.0 found in Windows 2000 and v3.1 found in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and in current pre-release versions of Windows Vista. These versions are sometimes referred to as v4.0, v5.0 and v5.1, after the version of Windows they ship with. Newer versions added extra features. For example, Windows 2000 introduced quotas.
  
  for more information, pls refer to wiki
• manyu882

  27 Aug 06, 19:56

  NFTS... or fat32?
  
  i prefer fat32 cos more flexible for Computers less than win2k to browse file in winxp home with fat32 system. however, if i still remain as Fat32, i cannot instll newer OS. But all windows oS can read fat32 system files.
• FireIce

  27 Aug 06, 19:59

  for comparison, FAT
• Cenarious

  27 Aug 06, 20:09

  hey i learned this in school
  
  but do i care?
• abao

  28 Aug 06, 16:16

  ntfs is supposed to be more secure and better management of files as it is in 4kb instead of 8 or 32kb
• dark_snowboy

  29 Aug 06, 11:40

  ntfs got higher max storage space