On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:31:21AM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
[...]
> 
> NTFS supports most of the same stuff that EXT3 does -- sparse files,
> hard links etc. It additionally supports compression and encryption in
> the filesystem itself. IIRC it does meta-data journalling whereas EXT3
[...]

Another feature NTFS has that ext3 doesn't is "file streams".  In NTFS Files
(and directories) can have streams in them, e.g. foo.txt could have
foo.txt:bar.txt -- I believe they're somewhat like "resource forks" or
"extended attributes" in other filesystems.  Google if you want to know
more.

-Andrew

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