Advanced NTFS Features
NTFS has many advanced features that administrators should know about and understand. These features include the following:
Hard links
Data streams
Change journals
Object identifiers
Reparse points
Remote storage
Sparse files
Each of these features is discussed in the sections that follow.
Hard Links
Every file created on a volume has a hard link. The hard link is the directory entry for the file and it is what allows the operating system to find files within folders. On NTFS volumes, files can have multiple hard links. This allows a single file to appear in the same directory with multiple names or to appear in multiple directories with the same name or different names. As with file copies, applications can open a file using any ...
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