About NTFS ( New Technology File System)

NTFS

•NTFS is known as New Technology File System. NTFS is a File organizational system that stores an excess information located on Microsoft windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP operating system NTFS offers better methods of data protection and file recovery than previous versions of FAT.

•This was originally designed for Windows NT and today is supported in windows 2000,windows XP and some Unix variant operating systems, security and support for client-server systems.

•Windows NT NTFS uses 5 MB of overhead therefore it is recommended that at least a 50 MB partition be used for NTFS on at least a 400 MB hard disk drive.

Some of the NTFS Key features are :

•NTFS supports long file name

•NTFS supports the preservation of case . NTFS is not case-sensitive, however, it does not have the capability to preserve case for POSIX compliance.

•NTFS is a recoverable file system. It uses transaction logging to automatically log all file and directory updates so that in the case of a power outage or system failure, this information can be used to redo failed operations.

• NTFS supports compression of the files and directories to optimize storage space on your hard disk.

•NTFS provides the user with local security for protecting files and directories.

•NTFS supports spanning volumes, which means files and directories can be spread out across several physical drives.

•NTFS is a journaling file system.