On 23 Dec 2001, at 14:07, Robert Citkowitz wrote:

> Dave Gillett [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>   In general, NTFS provides a variety of nice features that FAT32
> doesn't, and so it's in many senses the "superior" choice.
>
> Whagt 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.

Dave Gillett

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