Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS
I support conservative engineering for file systems.<p>NTFS is highly reliable and Microsoft wants to build on that success with ReFS.  In years of working with NTFS I've never had a serious filesystem wreck (although I did have one that was never quite the same after I made a few hundred million small files)<p>The NTFS story isn't that different from the ext(2|3|4) story on Linux.  ext-N filesystems are boring and not particularly fast,  but they're reliable.  I've tried other filesystems on Linux but have often had wrecks or noticed data corruption.<p>I like boring filesystems.