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I think he means for your average winXP computer. I doubt winXP supports anything else than fat/ntfs (and maby winFS, if some security update adds support) (these are a.k.a. Microsoft formats).
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Fear not, I could tell from his first post.
For Windows, he could've added StorNext FS (great/fast for large networks, reduces need to make duplicate copies of files). There's also SFS and CXFS.
All of those are very adapted for SAN-attached computers, companies and schools. All work with Windows/Linux/MacOS...
In case he's looking into a more serious comparison between those, look HERE. And in case you deal with BIG files, or do media editiong like AMVs, NTFS will be the only way.
What file system is more efficient, FAT32 or NT file system(NTFS)?
NTFS or FAT32 ?
The decision isn't really all that difficult and here's why. If you're using the latest Windows operating systems (Windows 2000, Windows XP), use NTFS. Here are just some of the qualities of NTFS that FAT32 and FAT16 lack:
File security: Access rights can be assigned to files and directories, allowing users full access, partial access or no access at all to data on the hard disk.
Encryption: NTFS can automatically encrypt and decrypt file data as it is read and written to the disk
Disk compression (very important,activating it is likely to give you significantly more available disk space): File and directory compression can be performed without using any third party software, which saves space, while still allowing for transparent access and operation to the user.
Support for large hard disks: We're talking very large. Try a theoretical limit of 16 Exabytes, and up to 2 Terabytes.
File names: Native support of long file names and a 16-bit character standard called Unicode :guitar:
Storage quotas: Disk quotas can be assigned that limit the amount of disk space users can access on a partition.
Sparse files: Let the user assign and reserve hard disk space to specific files.
File streams: Support for multiple data streams. Kaspersky uses ADS for security.
Fault tolerance (most important): An enhanced ability to seamlessly respond to unexpected hardware and software errors.
- If you want to make the computer a multi-boot system, you might want to consider FAT32, but you don't have to go with it.
- If you're concerned about being able to see files across partitions, you should make the shared partitions FAT32.
For more details about the difference between NTFS and Fat32, you could read these Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q100108
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q314463
A long post indeed :guitar:
