NTFS

In the Ultra Transcenders books

AZ-305AZ-104SC-500AZ-802

Each book explains NTFS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Chat message roles

  Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).

• Azure Files

  Azure's managed file shares over SMB or NFS. There is no Archive tier, and a single encryption key applies across the whole storage account.

Related terms

• ACL

  List of permissions set on a file or folder; examples include the POSIX-style lists in ADLS Gen2 and NTFS lists on Azure Files. Attribute conditions cannot be expressed in them.

• EFS

  Encrypting File System: an NTFS capability for encrypting single files or folders, using keys linked to a user's certificate.

• FAT32

  Lacks file-level permissions, so Windows Server features such as FSRM won't work on it; use NTFS or ReFS.

• FILESTREAM

  Lets SQL Server keep varbinary(max) data as ordinary NTFS files that still stay transactionally consistent with the database. TDE doesn't encrypt this data, and ledger tables can't use it.

• FSRM

  File Server Resource Manager, a Windows Server tool for controlling what is stored on NTFS volumes, offering storage reports, quotas, screening, classification and scheduled file management.

• ODX

  Offloaded Data Transfer. A capable SAN moves or copies data internally, exchanging tokens rather than streaming it through the server; NTFS supports it but ReFS doesn't.

• ReFS

  Resilient File System, aimed at large scale and data integrity: checksums, block cloning, mirror-accelerated parity and online repair with Storage Spaces. Windows cannot boot from it, and disk quotas and ODX, both found in NTFS, are missing.

• Share-level permissions

  Role assignments made with Azure RBAC on an Azure file share. They govern which identities get in over SMB, and are evaluated ahead of NTFS permissions.