January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
26h 21m
English
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Selecting a Filesystem
The following is a list of criteria that you can use in selecting a filesystem for your disk volumes.
Windows 2000 recommends that you manage your disk storage devices using dynamic as opposed to basic disks. This bias will become even more obvious when we discuss disk arrays in the next chapter. The only disadvantages of dynamic disks are that you cannot use them for your system partition and that you cannot share volumes in dual-boot environments.
The FAT16 filesystem wastes a lot of space on drives that are larger than 500 MB (which covers just about any drive on the market these days) and does not provide the security features available in the NTFS filesystem. The FAT32 filesystem does provide an alternative to FAT16 that allows you to share filesystems at additional cost in dual-boot environments, but still does not have some of the advanced features of the NTFS filesystem.
For any heavy-duty file server environment where security is a concern, the only choice for a filesystem is NTFS. In addition to security, you get a wealth of features, some introduced in the Windows 2000 version, including Junctions, Mount Points, remote storage, encryption, compression, and quotas.
Over time, filesystems become fragmented. There is not much you can do to avoid this (although recent versions of the leading defragmentation tools attempt to prevent fragmentation from occurring), but you should definitely implement a regular defragmentation policy on your network. A ...
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