NTFS turns 30 years old today! I hear it's still in use by some crufty old legacy operating systems 😁

How do you know when someone uses linux?

Don't worry, they'll tell you

The last update to NTFS was in 2004.

The fact that ReFS doesn't even support all the features NTFS does is pathetic.

Unbelievably, Windows still has a ridiculously short filepath length limit.

You want your filesystems to be old and stable. It's new filesystems you want to view with suspicion.. not battle tested.

I read « NFTs turns 30 yo ». Definitely need an exorcism.

I read it as NFTS and was very confused for a minute.

It is weird to me that Microsoft hasn't updated the file system in so long. They were going to with Longhorn/VIsta but that failed and it seems like they've been gunshy ever since.

Can it die now? ZFS all the things!

I use both. I like Linux better, even more since W10. It's spyware, crap, all those nasty things. But hey, I'm a pc gamer and, sadly enough, my games (80% of them) all get funcky in Linux (wine, playonlinux,... I tried it all), so guess I'm stuck with the crap. But again, Linux is far better and superior

I miss defragging…

This might sound ignorant but that's cause I am. Why doesn't windows just use ext4, btrfs, XFS, or something open source. They wouldn't have to worry about developing it so it'd be a load off their chest and they could get really good features that even NTFS doesn't have. Well maybe not with ext4 but with btrfs

How old is ext4?

Not Terribly Fast System

Does NTFS allow for merging of disks into a single partition? Apple was able to do this by combing a larger HDD with a smaller SSD into a single virtual HFS+ volume.

Using WinFs at the moment on almost all my drives. Should be the default.

I heard rumours of Windows 12 moving away from NTFS(I assume keeping it as a legacy option).

Btrfs FTW. EXT 4 is also pretty darn good. Windows is a joke not a good fit for my use cases and has privacy issues about many others. I just it very occasionally but mostly run Arch Linux for my needs. Windows Games are running better under WINE/Proton than native in Windows often now.

Isn't that the FS that constantly needs to be defragged? Do people still do that?