Chapter 15. Managing File Systems
IN THE LAST CHAPTER, WE SAW HOW to partition off raw storage on spinning media. This is a little like real estate developers who buy raw acreage out in sunny southern New Mexico. Sure, the acreage might have a beautiful view of the old Titan missile sites and dry alkali lakes, but the developers won't be able to convince Easterners to buy any property on this acreage until they section it off into plats and install some basic infrastructure like water and electricity and sewers and high-speed Internet connections.
For data storage, this sectioning and infrastructure development comes in the form of a file system. Windows Server 2003, like its predecessors, uses modular Installable File System (IFS) drivers to ...
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