There’s a great article over at Ars about the history (and future) of file systems. I was going to skim through it, assuming it would be pretty dry, but it’s actually quite interesting and even funny at times.
The section about NTFS seems to have the best quotes:
Even the file date attributes were stretched to ridiculous limits: Renaissance time-travelers can happily set their file dates as early as 1601 AD, and dates as late as 60056 AD are supported as well, although if humanity is still using NTFS by that time, it will indicate something is seriously wrong with our civilization.
and then the stone cold truth as well:
Additional features were added to NTFS in later versions of Windows NT. Version 3.0, released with Windows 2000, added the aforementioned indexed metadata searching, along with encryption and disk quotas so that students could no longer fill up the file server with pirated MP3s.
So be sure to check it out!
