NTFS question! OS

learningITlearningIT Member Posts: 36 ■■□□□□□□□□
What is the difference between NTFS4 and NTFS5.x???
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  • janmikejanmike Member Posts: 3,076
    NTFS4 is the version of NTFS distributed with NT4. NTFS5 is the version of NTFS distributed with Windows 2000. You have to have NT4 with a certain level of service pack(I don't remember which one) before it can read NTFS5.
    "It doesn't matter, it's in the past!"--Rafiki
  • WebmasterWebmaster Admin Posts: 10,292 Admin
    I'm sure their is a good article at www.microsoft.com that describes it completely, but here goes from the top of my head:

    NTFS 5 was introduced in Windows 2000. XP and 2003 use it as well, and Windows NT4 with SP4 or higher.

    NTFS 5 includes the following features NTFS 4 doesn't:
    - Sparse file support (ie. when a database server allocates a 4 GB file but it isn't completely filled with data it won't need the entire 4GB on disk either)
    - Encrypted file system
    - Reparse points
    - Change journal
    - Disk Quotas

    I'm not sure if the list is complete, so I suggest trying a search at the MS site ;)
  • learningITlearningIT Member Posts: 36 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Thank you!
    I want to learn to succeed.
  • bwolfebwolfe Member Posts: 24 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Webmaster wrote:
    NTFS 5 was introduced in Windows 2000. XP and 2003 use it as well, and Windows NT4 with SP4 or higher.

    Actually I believe NTFS 5 was introduced with NT 4.0 Server.
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