Articles Tagged “File System”
3 articles tagged “File System”, newest first.
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OneDrive "Files On-Demand" and Business Apps — The Assumptions Placeholders Break and How to Deal with Them
A desktop CSV will not open, or an import fails with "file not found" — the cause may be OneDrive's Known Folder Move and Files On-Demand. This article expla...
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The Depths of Windows I/O (Part 5) — NTFS Internals: Understanding the File System Through the MFT
Part 5 of a series explaining NTFS internals with diagrams. Covers the MFT and file records, multiple data streams (Zone.Identifier), hard links and 8.3 name...
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The Depths of Windows I/O (Part 4) — Cache Manager: When Does Your WriteFile Actually Reach the Disk?
Part 4 of an illustrated series on the Windows cache manager. It covers the cache implemented as a file mapping, read-ahead and lazy writing, how to choose b...