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ReFS provides the same filesystem APIs as NTFS, but the implementation does not depend on NTFS at all.
by ygra 10y ago
ReFS provides the same filesystem APIs as NTFS, but the implementation does not depend on NTFS at all.
- cm3 10y agoCan you point me to a source? I've read conflicting articles on it and frankly I found it odd that they supposedly would layer ZFS-like features on top of NTFS.
- ygra 10y agohttps://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2012/01/16/building-the-next-generation-file-system-for-windows-refs/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/b8/2012/01/16/building-the-... At least I read it as »We took the API and a bunch of support infrastructure for that API and simply changed the storage engine on disk completely underneath that.«
- cm3 10y agoThanks, looks like a fork and I can also see why some of the text could be mistaken to mean it's reusing NTFS underneath.