Inside the Windows NT(tm) File System

By Helen Custer

This detailed, informative monograph by critically acclaimed author Helen Custer is an up-to-date adjunct to her bestselling Inside Windows NT. In this special edition, Custer expands on her discussion of the robust new Windows NT File System (NTFS) and documents its ardous design abd creation process. This book includes the first discussion of data compression in Windows NT, describes the file system's internal structure, and explains in detail how NTFS recovers a volume and reconstructs it after a system failure.

Experiece level:
Intermediate and advanced users

104 pages, softcover
$9.95 (12.95 Canada)
ISBN I-55615-660-X

Contents:

Chapter 1:

High-end file system requirements; new features in NTFS.

Chapter 2

The NTFS model.

Chapter 3:

File system structure-NTFS concepts and terms; on-disk structure; filename indexing; Ntfs metadata files and the boot file.

Chapter 4:

Evolution of the file systems design; logging; recovery.

Chapter 5:

Volume management features; fault tolerant volumes; NTFS bad-cluster recovery.

Chapter 6:

Data compression.

Chapter 7:

MS-DOS filename generation.

Conclusion; Glossay; Bibliography; Index.

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