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Chapter 4. NTFS 5.0

In this chapter

The Master File Table (MFT)
Files
Streams
Metadata
Hard Links
Reparse Points
Quotas

Microsoft developed the Windows NT File System (NTFS) in the late 1980s to address limitations in the other two file systems that they supported at the time—namely, FAT and HPFS. In the next pages, you'll examine NTFS 5.0, the enhanced version of NTFS that ships with Windows 2000.

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