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NT File System (NTFS) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft in the 1990s.12[

It was developed to overcome scalability, security and other limitations with FAT.3 NTFS adds several features that FAT and HPFS lack, including: access control lists (ACLs); filesystem encryption; transparent compression; sparse files; file system journaling and volume shadow copy, a feature that allows backups of a system while in use.

Starting with Windows NT 3.1, it is the default file system of the Windows NT family superseding the File Allocation Table (FAT) file system.4 NTFS read/write support is available on Linux and BSD using NTFS3 in Linux and NTFS-3G in both Linux and BSD.567

NTFS uses several files hidden from the user to store metadata about other files stored on the drive which can help improve speed and performance when reading data.[

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  1. “The New Technology File System”. Forensic Computing. 2007. pp. 215–275. doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-732-9_6. ISBN 978-1-84628-397-0. ↩

  2. Weiss, David (2022-08-01). “What Is NTFS and How Does It Work?”. Datto. Retrieved 2024-08-14. ↩

  3. Hassan, Nihad Ahmad; Hijazi, Rami (2017). “Data Hiding Under Windows® OS File Structure”. Data Hiding Techniques in Windows OS. pp. 97–132. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-804449-0.00004-X. ISBN 978-0-12-804449-0. ↩

  4. Custer, Helen (1994). Inside the Windows NT File System. Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-1-55615-660-1. ↩

  5. “NTFS3 — The Linux Kernel documentation”. www.kernel.org. Retrieved 2021-12-02. ↩

  6. “ntfs-3g”. www.freebsd.org. Retrieved 2021-12-02. ↩

  7. Arch Linux - ntfs-3g 2022.10.3-1 (x86_64) ↩

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