Windows 8 – Next generation file system

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Another blog post about the building of Windows 8 – Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS.

Note: this new file system will be only be available on Windows 8 Server data volumes.

Joe

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Joe,

Thanks for the link. That’s heavy stuff but very interesting. Here’s the info from the article on limits with my annotations:

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Limit based on the on-disk format

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Maximum size of a single file

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2^64-1 bytes

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Maximum size of a single volume

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Format supports 2^78 bytes with 16KB cluster size (2^64 * 16 * 2^10). Windows stack addressing allows 2^64 bytes

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Maximum number of files in a directory

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2^64 = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616

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Maximum number of directories in a volume

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2^64

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Maximum file name length

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32K unicode characters – Yeah like I’ll ever have a file name that long :rolleyes:

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Maximum path length

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32K

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Maximum size of any storage pool

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4 PB – Hello is the Cray Computer?

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Maximum number of storage pools in a system

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No limit

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Maximum number of spaces in a storage pool

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No limit

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Sorry I can’t seem to get the table to format correctly. :angry: :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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