I'm asking because there's a feature of NTFS I want to try and play with in a new application, but it would only be worth pursuing if NTFS is common enough.
I don't know whether MMF's extensions will permit it, but it's a file-hiding system called ADS. Out of curiosity, has anyone tried using ADS already in MMF?
Sounds like it could be great fun for gamesaves if it works!
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Sounds like it should be OK to use as long as it works in MMF.
The basic principle behind it is that you not only have filenames that go like this:
Drive:\folder\subfolder\file.extension
but you can also have one file attached to another, like this:
c:\folder\subfolder\file.txt:anotherFile.txt
'anotherfile.txt' won't be visible in explorer or (almost) any other kind of disk explorer. Yet something like Notepad could still read it if you told it to open 'file.txt:anotherFile.txt'
It's kinda like having files saved in a whole other dimension. They're there, and yet they're not there. All you'll see is the file it's attached to (in this case, 'file.txt'). If this can be used in MMF, you can imagine the nifty applications (such as gamesave hiding)
I always assumed it stood for Naughty Toast File System, I suppose your way makes more sense. So what's FAT32 stand for? I got it down as the Baseball team 'Fantastic Alternative Tapirs 1932.'
I brought a new hardrive last month (160gb, 7200 rpm, 8mb cache), and i fdisked it as FAT32 (file allocation table - 32 bit, which is adequate for terrabytes of storage) .
If your interested dines look up singly/doubly linked lists, i'm told thats how the FAT/NTFS system works.
NTFS is also a *lot* more reliable if the power goes, or the system crashes. No need to scandisk it also can be indexed quite fast by Windows 2000's & XP's indexing service (if you enable it = fast searching) it would take a few days or a week or two to index a lot of files.
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Apocalyptic Coders - 
it also can be indexed quite fast by Windows 2000's & XP's indexing service (if you enable it = fast searching) it would take a few days or a week or two to index a lot of files.
