2011 Secrets of Windows

File system is the foundation on which the any manipulation of the data by loading the operating system to read text files. In the era of DOS was not possible to choose the file system, all work on FAT32, as an alternative at the time was not. With the release of Windows 95 OSR2, alternative appeared, trickers was a choice between FAT16 and FAT32. Later appeared OS Windows NT/2000 supports NTFS, revolution among users has not occurred since the system was more focused on server. But with the advent of Windows XP, there was the problem of choosing between NTFS and FAT32. And so, where the same two file systems prefer? What is file system? The file system manages the storage and access files on your PC. One of the basic concepts of a cluster - the minimum size of the data on the disk. For example, if the cluster size 8 KB, and our file is 1 KB, the result of our file on the hard drive will occupy 8 KB (one cluster). If the actual file size 8.1 MB, the hard drive it will take 16 MB (two clusters). Theoretically FAT32 disk size FAT32, limited to 8 TB. File names can store up to 255 characters. The maximum possible size of a single file is 4GB. One of the main characteristics of the file system is stability in FAT32 it dobre.Naybilsh not very common misconception incorrectly recorded data on the number of space. In addition, FAT32 is quite prone to fragmentation trickers (especially in filling the disk more than 80%) - this greatly slows down. In the most severe trickers cases fragmentation can even lead to "fall" of the entire file system. trickers Restrictions on NTFS hard drive size - 2,000,000 GB. So we can say there is simply no restrictions. The first 12% drive running NTFS allocated to the main file table MFT (Master File Table). The remaining 88% is space for data storage. It is a catalog of all available files, and the files are small in size (100 bytes) are stored directly in the MFT - it's significantly faster access. To use FS are important elements of the first 16 MFT (pointers to system files) and therefore the disk maintains a copy of these records. As a result, "demolish" NTFS is quite easy: the system is able to circumvent a serious malfunction disk surface and survive even damaged MFT (similar situation for FAT would have ended fatally). The internal structure of NTFS is similar to a binary tree, allowing dozens of times to reduce the search time required file. The more files in the directory, the more advantage trickers over FAT32 when searching. Data compression in NTFS also performed on the file system trickers that allows you to process them very quickly. Compression mechanism is extremely versatile - you can pack even half the file, leaving the rest of the uncompressed. trickers This file may contain any character, including a full set of national alphabets, trickers as data presented in Unicode (65,535 trickers different characters). NTFS has lots of separation of objects - it is believed that this is the most perfect file system from all currently existing. But this is only in theory ..
2011 Secrets of Windows