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As a full time desktop Linux user since 1999 (the actual year of the Linux desktop) I wish all you Windows folks the best of luck on the next clean install ๐Ÿ‘

...and Happy 30th Birthday "New Technology" File System!

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[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Making an account to say this seems like the insecure thing. Lol

Also plenty of Windows users criticize NTFS. It's just outdated. Windows needs a new option.

[-] Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Honest question: what are the limitations? Most articles online compare it with FAT, which isn't really an interesting comparison.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

To the best of my knowledge, most of the limitations are around allocation. NTFS doesn't allow for extent-based allocation, delayed allocation, uninitialized allocation, etc. It only has one allocation mode, which is the traditional block-at-a-time (actually "cluster"-at-a-time, though NTFS's clusters are roughly block-sized compared to other filesystems), which is now thought to be slightly less than ideal in terms of allocation performance and fragmentation.

And...speaking of fragmentation, I believe NTFS still can't do online defragmentation??? I can't see anything that contradicts this, but it's possible I'm out of date.

There are other small differences. NTFS has unnecessary filename restrictions, like prohibiting " and ? and things. But that's typically less important.

[-] YoMismo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

What about ReFS !? I have read it could be the alternative to NTFS in the future.

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