NTFS is an abbreviation of New Technology Filesystem.It is used by Windows NT,2000,and XP.It provides Linux Kernel Drivers,a multiplatform NTFS library,and various tools for resizing,creating,rescuing,and fixing NTFS volumes.It is compatible with kernel preemption and SMP and both on 32 and 64 bit architecture.It also provides support for the Logical Disk Manager which is used to create software mirrors,stripes etc.No defragmentation is required for resizing. It is not required to install Linux for using it,It can be run in several ways such as by booting one of the many Linux Live CD,DVD.The major advantages are:
1. Stable
2. supports all NTFS clusters sizes from 512 bytes upto 64 KB.
3. Full support for sparse and compressed files.
4. Much better performance.
5. support for exporting mounted NTFS volumes.
6. support for access time updates.