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NTFS limits
- FS-size upto 2^64 clusters by design
- Some tools limited to 2048 GiB due to use of
32 bits for sector or cluster numbers
- Allocation in clusters of typically 8 sectors
- MFT record typical size is 2 KiB
- May hold all data for small files. Larger attributes are stored externally, using runlists for the allocated space
- Filename of unlimited length, limited by the OS
itself to a length of 254 characters