Microsoft planning to replace NTFS in Windows 8

pctech · Jan 17, 2012, 20:13:32

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-goes-public-with-plans-for-its-new-windows-8-file-system/11666?tag=nl.e539

Niall · Jan 17, 2012, 20:17:52

Yay new stuff to break things

pctech · Jan 17, 2012, 22:28:32

Very true Niall.

Rik · Jan 18, 2012, 10:47:13

And if they can, they will.

esh · Jan 20, 2012, 09:31:47

I'm sure you all miss FAT32, right?

The joys of cross-linked files! Missing hard-drive space! Corrupted file tables...

Yeah, FAT32 needed replacing. I guess the question is, does NTFS? I've found it pretty good, especially with the journal system in Win7. Not a single corruption as of yet. I stupidly once plugged in a Win XP NTFS drive into a Win 2000 PC though and it thought the entire drive was corrupted, fixed it, and then all the files were gone. Urk.

Technical Ben · Jan 20, 2012, 11:04:49

Same here. Although I did antecedently delete a spare drive off of a "linked" drive portion table. Which ended up deleting the entire partition, not just the spare space.

But 3 days later I managed to rebuild the files and file tables.

pctech · Jan 22, 2012, 21:24:23

Quote from: esh on Jan 20, 2012, 09:31:47
I'm sure you all miss FAT32, right?

The joys of cross-linked files! Missing hard-drive space! Corrupted file tables...

Yeah, FAT32 needed replacing. I guess the question is, does NTFS? I've found it pretty good, especially with the journal system in Win7. Not a single corruption as of yet. I stupidly once plugged in a Win XP NTFS drive into a Win 2000 PC though and it thought the entire drive was corrupted, fixed it, and then all the files were gone. Urk.

That sounds odd as Win2K was NT 5.0

Steve · Jan 22, 2012, 21:30:54

It was the on disk format that was different in Win 2000 i.e. NTFSv3.0 . XP and onwards NTFSv3.1. The NTFS.sys driver in Win2000 was v5.0

pctech · Jan 22, 2012, 23:01:17

Ah that explains it.

2000 had pretty much been and gone before I needed to know about that kind of stuff.