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Great place to store meta data about a file, never thought about that before. I guess if the download stream is interrupted it reads that to know where to pick
by enjoy-your-stay 10y ago
Great place to store meta data about a file, never thought about that before. I guess if the download stream is interrupted it reads that to know where to pick up again if resumed?
Another obscure feature of NTFS is Transactional NTFS which I'd never heard of until recently.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363859(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
- ygra 10y agoWindows even includes mechanisms to perform transactions over different things like file system, registry, and even multiple machines. Back when SVN was horribly slow and implemented transactions by actually touching thousands of small files in the .svn directories, I actually wanted to implement its file system layer on Windows with NTFS transactions, figuring that a native solution would probably be better. But by now they completely changed their working copy format so I don't think it's necessary anymore.
- int_19h 10y agoUnfortunately, transactional NTFS is being deprecated. MSDN says: "Microsoft strongly recommends developers utilize alternative means to achieve your application’s needs. Many scenarios that TxF was developed for can be achieved through simpler and more readily available techniques. Furthermore, TxF may not be available in future versions of Microsoft Windows." Which is a shame, because, conceptually speaking, a true transactional filesystem with snapshot semantics makes some things so much easier.
- flukus 10y agoDo you mean DTC or something else?