Monday, 30 November 2015

NTFS(New Technology File System)


                                           NTFS (New Technology File System)
This file system is the standard file system of windows NT, including  all the latest version operating system like Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows vista, and Windows 7.NTFS have several  improvements over FAT and HPFS(High Performance File system) such as improved version support for metadata(data about data) and there is use of advanced data structure to improve the  performances, reliability, and disk space utilization, plus addition extension such as security access control list(ACL) & File system journaling(FSJ).
Developer: Microsoft
Full name: New Technology File System
Launched: July 1993
Partition Format: MBR (Master Boot Recorder)
Max. File Size: 16 Exabyte’s
History
In the period of 1980’s, IBM & Microsoft had a joint project to create the new generation graphical OS (operating system). After sometimes the Project OS/2 was disagreed by both MICROSOFT & IBM on some important topics. The IBM continuously start working on OS/2 but Microsoft start on other project called Microsoft NT. When IBM have completed their OS/2 project it uses HPFS file system .Now, Microsoft also completed their project and work on NTFS file system both the IBM & Microsoft uses contained several new features.
Versions:
1.      V1.0 with OS NT 3.1 (developed in 1993)
2.      V1.1 with OS NT 3.5 (developed in 1994)
3.      V1.2 with OS NT 3.51 (developed in 1995)
4.      V3.0 with windows 2000
5.      V3.1 with Windows xp(2001)
6.      V5.1 with Windows Server 2003(2003)
7.      V5.2 with Windows Vista (2005)
8.      V6.0 with Windows Server 2008 ,Windows 7
Features:
1.      USN JOURNAL
2.      Alternate data streams(ADS)
3.      Spare files
4.      File Compression
5.      Volume Shadow Copy
6.      Transactional NTFS
7.      Encrypting File system(EFS)
8.      Quotas
9.      Re parse Points
10.  Volume Mount Points
11.  Directory Junctions

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