> what ?!?! NTFS has no case sensitivity no compression.
As the sibling comment mentioned, NTFS does have a case-sensitive mode, for instance for the POSIX subsystem (which no longer exists, but it existed back when NTFS was new); I think it's also used for WSL1. And NTFS does have per-file compression, I've used it myself back in the early 2000s (as it was a good way to free a bit of space on the small disks from back then); there was even a setting you could enable on Windows Explorer which made compressed files in its listing blue-colored.
NTFS has per-folder case sensitivity flag. You could set it online at anytime prior to Windows 11, but as of 11 you can now only change it on an empty folder (probably due to latent bugs they didn’t want to fix).
NTFS had mediocre compression support from the very start that could be enabled on a volume or directory basis, but gained modern LZ-based compression (that could be extended to whatever algorithm you wanted) in Windows 10, but it’s unfortunately a per-file process that must be done post-write.
I activated it back in mid 2010 or so. I had the most amazing pikachuface when random things stopped working because it could no longer find that file it wanted to load with an all-lowercase-string even though the project builds it with CapitalCase. Sigh...
cesarb|1 year ago
As the sibling comment mentioned, NTFS does have a case-sensitive mode, for instance for the POSIX subsystem (which no longer exists, but it existed back when NTFS was new); I think it's also used for WSL1. And NTFS does have per-file compression, I've used it myself back in the early 2000s (as it was a good way to free a bit of space on the small disks from back then); there was even a setting you could enable on Windows Explorer which made compressed files in its listing blue-colored.
ComputerGuru|1 year ago
NTFS had mediocre compression support from the very start that could be enabled on a volume or directory basis, but gained modern LZ-based compression (that could be extended to whatever algorithm you wanted) in Windows 10, but it’s unfortunately a per-file process that must be done post-write.
rurban|1 year ago
inetknght|1 year ago