Microsoft goes public with its new file system, Resilient File System (ReFS) – Part 1

Microsoft announced in 2011 that they will be coming with an entirely new operating system in the Windows line. In October, the company announced the Beta version of new Window 8 for experts and technology professionals all over the world for a deeper insight to system.

Although the new operating system is developed especially to cater to the growing tablet culture, it also includes the older Aero themed version in the new operating system. The latest edition of the Aero came in Windows 7.

The Metro interface has been the major attraction of the new Windows 8. The interface is majorly inspired by the Windows Phone 7 and Windows Media Center. However, since the rumours of Win 8 are beefing up, Microsoft officials are finally sharing publicly details about “Protogon,” the new file system that the company is developing as part of Windows 8.

Officially named ReFS — for Resilient File System — the new file system will be made available via a staged “evolution,” according to a January 16 post on the “Building Windows 8? blog.

ReFS will begin life as a storage system for Windows Server only. Then — some time post Windows 8 — it will become a storage system for Windows clients, and then ultimately “as a boot volume,” said author of the post, Surendra Verma, a development manager on the Windows Storage and File System team. (Interestingly, when the first leaks about ReFS, codenamed Protogon, occurred last year, those who discovered the new file system found it in leaked Windows 8 client builds.)

NTFS, the New Technology File System, has been part of Windows since Windows XP and Windows NT 3.1 were introduced in 2001 and 1993, respectively. (Thanks for the date corrections, readers.)

There are some NTFS features for which Microsoft plans to drop support with ReFS, specifically named streams, object IDs, short names, compression, file level encryption (EFS), user data transactions, sparse, hard-links, extended attributes, and quotas, Verma blogged.

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