&& NTFS Features such as the following &&
File and folder security: XP professional , home edition just simple sharing
Increased performance
Compression
Disk quotas: administrators can limit the amount of disk space users can consume on a per-volume basis
the three quota levels are : off, Tracking, Enforced
XP professional , home edition not support disk quotas
the disk quota feature in win xp professional is :
** based on file ownership ** independent of folder location ** not possible with FAT, FAT32
Encryption : the NTFS file system can automatically encrypt and decrypt file data as it is read and written to the disk
XP professional , home edition not support Encryption
Reparse point: programs can trap open operations against objects in the file system and run their own code before returning file data
this feature such as mount points , which you can use to redirect data read and written from a folder to another volume or physical disk
Sparse files : this feature allows programs to create very large files but to consume disk space only as needed
USN Journal: this feature provides a persistent log of all changes made to files on the volume
this feature is one of the reasons that win xp and win 2000 domain controller must use an NTFS partition as the system volume
