NTFS (File System)

NTFS is a file system by Microsoft. Its name is an acronym for New Technology File System.

There have been 5 releases of the NTFS file system by Microsoft

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NTFS has the partition identifier of 0x07 (MBR) EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7 (GPT)

NTFS is a B-Tree file system

It supports 64 bit (2^64) clusters, but is limited depending on the operating system version.

256 TiB − 64 KB (Windows 10 version 1703, Windows Server 2016 or earlier implementation)

8 PB – 2 MB (Windows 10 version 1709, Windows Server 2019 or later implementation)

Max. file size 16 EiB – 1 KB (format);

16 TB – 64 KB (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or earlier implementation)

256 TB – 64 KB (Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 or later implementation)

8 PB – 2 MiB (Windows 10 version 1709, Windows Server 2019 or later implementation)

NTFS can hold a maximum of 4,294,967,295 (2 to the power of 32) files.

It has a maximum file path of 255 UTF-16 code units, which is equivalent to 510 UTF-8 code units, 4080 UTF-1 code units, and 32640 ANSI code units. The operating system has to be modified to do things like this, and this action can be dangerous

In Win32 namespace: any UTF-16 code unit (case-insensitive) except /\:*"?<>| as well as NUL

In POSIX namespace: any UTF-16 code unit (case-sensitive) except / as well as NUL

Trailing spaces are not allowed and will be removed

Dates recorded Creation, modification, POSIX change, access

Date range 1 January 1601 – 28 May 60056 (File times are 64-bit numbers counting 100-nanosecond intervals (ten million per second) since 1601, which is 58,000+ years)