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Unless something's changed, I'm pretty sure NTFS does indeed have alternate streams. I haven't seen a lot of software that uses that capability though.
by renewedrebecca 4y ago
Unless something's changed, I'm pretty sure NTFS does indeed have alternate streams. I haven't seen a lot of software that uses that capability though.
- bediger4000 4y agoSorry, poor wording on my part. NTFS has alternate data streams, does not have versions. VMS file system,maybe I should have written FILES-11, had versioned files, but not alternate data streams. It also had file "types" that were data organization types: fixed length records, counted string text files, etc etc. NTFS does not have those either.
- ChainOfFools 4y agoits a little stretch but you could probably tweak the volume shadow copy service into mimicking a file versioning system by taking snapshots at file level on each modification. this would probably not work for streams or long-lived open handle cases, but I'm not sure how a 'real' versioning FS would do any better there.