27.7. The NT filing system, NTFS
The power and capacity of modern PCs makes it feasible to use them for applications that would in former days have been restricted first to mainframes and more recently to network-based distributed systems for the workplace. PCs are now capable of functioning as file servers, compute servers and database servers. They are capable of running engineering and scientific applications and they will be used for large corporate systems which are networked.
Early PC filing systems, such as MS-DOS FAT, are totally inadequate for such large-scale applications. Even the more recent OS/2 HPFS was found to need modification; for example, HPFS uses a single block size of 512 bytes for storage allocation and has a maximum file ...
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