From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: File System and Storage

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Storage partitions and file systems

Storage partitions and file systems

Interesting. I like actually talking a lot about file systems and storage partitions because I'm a geek that way. When geeks really, really, really geek out, they talk about file systems and architecture and data and stuff like that, hardcore nerd kind of stuff. I think what we'll do is discuss that at some architectural level, get into some of the details around the benefits and drawbacks and where you would implement the different kinds of file systems and storage partitions and then continue this discussion when we examine ReFS a little bit more closely when we talk about storage spaces so that's actually coming up. First we need to set the framework and the ground work and introduce some of this stuff and talk about how it works, why it works, why you would use this stuff and how you make decisions centered on server 2012 or server infrastructure. Certainly this discussion applies very, very tightly to Windows 7 and Windows 8 client operating systems, older server operating…

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