Hungry for a shiny new file system? Windows 8′s got your back, or at least, Windows server 8 will. In his latest Building Windows 8 post, Steven Sinofsky introduces the Resilient File System, or ReFS, as a “next generation file system” built on the foundations of the NTFS. By reusing NTFS’ API / semantics engine, ReFS hopes to retain a high level of compatibility with NTFS features. Underneath the existing semantics engine, the new file system introduces a new storage engine that hopes to protect against latent disk errors, resist data corruption, uphold metadata integrity, grant large volume, file and directory size — and well, just build a better storage system in general. It’s all quite complicated, but if you feel up to the technical snuff, click through the source link below.
Microsoft introducing ReFS file system with Windows server 8 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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