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Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook
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Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook

by Jeff Schmidt
August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
Que
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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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