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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[โ€“] 23 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Why are Linux nerds so insecure? Lol

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    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 It's just outdated.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.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years 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 I can't see anything that contradicts this, but it's possible I'm out of date.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.

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