On 25 Dec 2001, at 8:09, Jagpal S.Tiwana wrote:

>  > What are the nice features!?> > Any drawbacks?>
>  > Rob
> Rob asked this, but did not get a satisfactory reply.
> I m also interested in this.
> Why one should prefer NTFS over FAT32,
> could somebody please elaborate


On 24 Dec 2001, at 12:17, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> On 23 Dec 2001, at 14:07, Robert Citkowitz wrote:
>
> > What are the nice fatures!?
>
>   Per-file/folder security is good to have, especially if the
> machine will have more than one user.
>   Per-file/folder/drive compression is nice, and considerably more
> flexible than DriveSpace/DoubleSpace (which I'm not sure Win2K
> supports...).
>   Per-file/folder encryption could be important in some
> environments.
>   Although you can defragment an NTFS disk, the penalty imposed by
> fragmentation is much lower than on any sort of FAT file system.
>   The file system keeps creation and last-read timestamps for each
> file/folder, as well as last-write.
>   Volumes may span multiple physical drives (and may exceed even
> FAT32's maximum volume size).
>   That's off the top of my head.
>
> > Any drawbacks?
>
>   Microsoft doesn't support access to NTFS from any Windows
> versions but NT/2K/XP, and some versions of NT (pre NT4 SP4, I
> believe) don't support the new version of NTFS which 2K (and
> presumably XP) use.

  It sounds like you hadn't seen this message, but if there are one
or two of these that you'd like me to go into more detail on, I can.

Dave Gillett

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