Windows 8 Server – Resilient File System (ReFS) Details Released
Microsoft has recently revealed the new file system RsFS. Much more detail can be found at the following blog:
In this blog, I am just highlighting some of the key things to take away about ReFS:
- Only Windows Server 8 will include the ReFS
- Windows 8 desktop will continue with NTFS
- ReFS will not be usable as a boot drive, this will come in future versions of Windows
- ReFS cannot be used on removable media devices (USB Disks)
- Failover clustering is supported
- There will be no way to convert an existing NTFS drive to a ReFS. Creating a new ReFS drive and copying data will be the only migration path for moving files onto a ReFS drive.
- Bit locker encryption is supported on ReFS
- Corruptions automatically detected and fixed
- Capacity limits of ReFS:
Cheers
Paul