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NT File System (NTFS) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft in the 1990s.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NTFS | Allowed filename characters | In Win32 namespace: any UTF-16 code unit (case-insensitive) except /\:*"?<>| as well as NUL | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Allowed filename characters | In POSIX namespace: any UTF-16 code unit (case-sensitive) except / as well as NUL | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Attributes | Read-only, hidden, system, archive, not content indexed, off-line, temporary, compressed, encrypted | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Bad blocks | $BadClus (MFT Record) | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Copy-on-write | No | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Data deduplication | Yes (Windows Server 2012) | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Date range | 1 January 1601 – 14 Sept 30828 or 28 May 60056 (File times are 64-bit numbers counting 100-nanosecond intervals (ten million per second) from 1601)[b] | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Date resolution | 100 ns | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Dates recorded | Creation, modification, POSIX change, access | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Developer | Microsoft | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Directory contents | B-tree variant | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | File allocation | Bitmap | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | File system permissions | ACLs | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Forks | Yes (see § Alternate data stream (ADS) below) | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Full name | NT File System | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Introduced | July 27, 1993; 33 years ago (1993-07-27) with Windows NT 3.1 | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Max file size | 16 EB[a] − 1 KB (format); 16 TB − 64 KB (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or earlier implementation) 256 TB − 64 KB (Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 or later implementation) 8 P… | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Max filename length | 255 UTF-16 code units | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Max no. of files | 4,294,967,295 (232−1) | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Max volume size | 264 clusters − 1 cluster (format); 256 TB[a] − 64 KB[a] (Windows 10 version 1703, Windows Server 2016 or earlier implementation) 8 PB[a] − 2 MB[a] (Windows 10 version 1709, Wind… | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Partition IDs | .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}0x07 (MBR) EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (GPT) | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Supported operating systems | Windows NT 3.1 and later Mac OS X 10.3 and later (read-only) Linux kernel version 2.6 and later Linux kernel versions 2.2–2.4 (read-only) FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD (read-only) Chro… | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Transparent compression | Per-file, LZ77 (Windows NT 3.51 onward) | 1.00 | infobox |
| NTFS | Transparent encryption | Per-file, DESX (Windows 2000 onward), Triple DES (Windows XP onward), AES (Windows XP Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 onward) | 1.00 | infobox |
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