"ReFS inherits the features and semantics from NTFS including BitLocker encryption, access-control lists for security, USN journal, change notifications, symbolic links, junction points, mount points, reparse points, volume snapshots, file IDs, and oplocks," Verma said, while ditching "named streams, object IDs, short names, compression, file level encryption (EFS), user data transactions, sparse, hard-links, extended attributes, and quotas".
ReFS supplants NTFS: La Mort Heureuse, or Sit Up and Notice?
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ReFS supplants NTFS: La Mort Heureuse, or Sit Up and Notice?
Now this is interesting - As MS are aware that Win8 is a non-event for desktop owners, they decide to change the playing field, at least a little, and start messing with the substrata architecture.
And here's another report on the MS activity towards replacing the now-standard New Technology File System (NTFS) beginning during the upcoming Windows 8 era.
(It also cites the same reference as Kilmatead does in his post, above.)
(It also cites the same reference as Kilmatead does in his post, above.)
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Actually that was WinFS, which seemed to be more database-related, and as such, perhaps a bit too ambitious/unnecessary/bloated (choose your poison) for an OS-base that was showing signs of obesity already - so it looks like they just went for the simpler revision.DougalScott wrote:Wasn't ReFS supposed to be the "big new thing" in Vista, but then got dropped because it was too hard and would have delayed the release (even more)?
Wikipedia wrote:WinFS (short for Windows Future Storage) is the code name for a cancelled data storage and management system project based on relational databases, developed by Microsoft and first demonstrated in 2003 as an advanced storage subsystem for the Microsoft Windows operating system, designed for persistence and management of structured, semi-structured as well as unstructured data.