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this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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Why are Linux nerds so insecure? Lol
Making an account to say this seems like the insecure thing. Lol
Also plenty of Windows users criticize NTFS. It's just outdated. Windows needs a new option.
Honest question: what are the limitations? Most articles online compare it with FAT, which isn't really an interesting comparison.
To the best of my knowledge, most of the limitations are around allocation. NTFS doesn't allow for extent-based allocation, delayed allocation, uninitialized allocation, etc. It only has one allocation mode, which is the traditional block-at-a-time (actually "cluster"-at-a-time, though NTFS's clusters are roughly block-sized compared to other filesystems), which is now thought to be slightly less than ideal in terms of allocation performance and fragmentation.
And...speaking of fragmentation, I believe NTFS still can't do online defragmentation??? I can't see anything that contradicts this, but it's possible I'm out of date.
There are other small differences. NTFS has unnecessary filename restrictions, like prohibiting " and ? and things. But that's typically less important.