NETWORK FILE SYSTEM vs. WINDOWS NT FILE SYSTEM

 

Introduction to NTFS:

The design goal of NT is provide the extensibility, portability, reliability, compatibility, performance and international support. The extensibility is the crucial thing for the operating system because of the advancement of the technologies. The NT is implemented on the Layered architecture to facilitate over changes. NTFS is designed for many features like data recovery, security, fault tolerance and multiple data stream. The fundamental entity in NTFS is a volume. NTFS does not deal with individual sectors of the disk but it deals with the cluster of the sectors for disk allocation and uses logical cluster numbers (LCN's) as disk addresses.

Key Difference between NTFS and NFS:

 

 Sources:

Operating system concepts --Silberschatz and Galvin

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