FAT vs NTfs

Hi BA. There are some basic differences between FAT and NTFS, but as far as
I know, those differences shouldn't affect such features as HORM or EWF.
The main differences between the two file systems affect security stuff,
such as file sharing and per-file permissions - NTFS will allow you to
specify permissions on a file-by-file and folder-by-folder basis, as well as
for file sharing, whereas FAT does not give you this ability. If you have a
need to take advantage of the added security of NTFS, I would recommend
using that system.

On the other hand, FAT is generally cleaner for use with EWF and El Torito
configurations, as the OS doesn't do nearly as many "maintenance" writes to
the file system in FAT. Windows regularly updates an NTFS partition with
last-accessed information, etc., that it doesn't do with FAT (theoretically,
it should only modify the FAT tables whenever any new data is written to the
partition). Therefore, if you're using EWF, you may find FAT will use less
overall overlay space. (However, regardless of the file system you use, the
efficiency of your overlay will depend greatly on how your configuration is
set up.)

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Matt Kellner (mattkell@online.microsoft.com)
STE, Windows Embedded Group

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"BattleAngel444" <garvin.seto@digidreamerz.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All
>
> just see if there are any limitation to using FAT instead of NTFS, such
> as not being able to implement HORM, EFW or other features that i may
> need NTFS.
>
> thanks for letting me pick your brains
> -BA4^3
>