 | Fat | NTFS |
|---|---|---|
| Food Groups | Food groups that contain fat include oils, butter, lard, and fish oil. | |
| Nutrition and Health | Fat provides essential fatty acids for the body and serves other function such as insulating the organs, helping in digestion of minerals and so on. | |
| Definition | Fat is a group of compounds that are insoluble in water and derived from food items such as ghee or oil. | |
| Introduced | July 1993 (Windows NT 3.1) | |
| Overall Performance | Recoverability, encryption and compression are designed into NTFS in a way that's transparent to the user. | |
| Max. volume size | 264 clusters − 1 cluster (format);, 256 TB (256 × 10244 bytes) − 64 KB (64 × 1024 bytes) (implementation) | |
| Max. file size | 16 EiB – 1 KiB (format);, 16 TiB – 64 KiB (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or earlier implementation), 256 TiB – 64 KiB (Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 implementation) | |
| Max. number of files | 4,294,967,295 (2^32-1) | |
| Attributes | Read-only, hidden, system, archive, not content indexed, off-line, temporary, compressed | |
| Dates recorded | Creation, modification, POSIX change, access | |
| Date range | 1 January 1601 – 28 May 60056 (File times are 64-bit numbers counting 100-nanosecond intervals (ten million per second) since 1601, which is 58,000+ years) | |
| Date resolution | 100 ns | |
| File system permissions | ACLs | |
| Max. filename length | 255 UTF-16 code units | |
| Transparent compression | Per-file, LZ77 (Windows NT 3.51 onward) | |
| Transparent encryption | Per-file,, DESX (Windows 2000 onward),, Triple DES (Windows XP onward),, AES (Windows XP Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 onward) | |
| Size & Storage | 16 EiB – 1 KiB (format);, 16 TiB – 64 KiB (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or earlier implementation), 256 TiB – 64 KiB (Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 implementation) | |
| Developer | Microsoft | |
| Full name | New Technology File System | |
| Supported operating systems | Windows NT family (Windows NT 3.1 to Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012), Mac OS X, GNU/Linux | |
| Partition identifier | 0x07 (MBR), EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (GPT) | |
| Introduction (from Wikipedia) | NTFS is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft Corporation for its Windows NT line of operating systems, beginning with Windows NT 3.1 and Windows 2000, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and all their successors to date. | |
| Directory contents | B+ tree | |
| File allocation | Bitmap | |
| Bad blocks | $badclus (MFT Record) | |
| Allowed characters in filenames | In Posix namespace, any UTF-16 code unit (case sensitive) except U+0000 (NUL) and / (slash). In Win32 namespace, any UTF-16 code unit (case insensitive) except U+0000 (NUL) / (slash) \ (backslash) : (colon) * (asterisk) ? (Question mark) " (quote) < | |
| Forks | Yes (see Alternate data streams below) | |
| Data deduplication | Yes (Windows Server 2012) |
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