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MFT record layout
The MFT record is of a fixed size (1 KiB)
that starts with a fixed header containing:
- Unique signature string 'FILE'
- Sequence, generation and 'fixup' information
- Offset to first dynamic attribute in the record (0x38)
- Type of the MFT-record, either File or Directory
After this a dynamic list of variable sized
attributes follows, these can be either:
- Internal (Self contained) when small
- External, using an allocation run-list pointing to one
or more clusters being used for the data