The key design advantages of ReFS include automatic integrity checking and data scrubbing, elimination of the need for running chkdsk, protection against data degradation, built-in handling of hard disk drive failure and redundancy, integration of RAID functionality, a switch to copy/allocate on write for data and metadata updates, handling of very long paths and filenames, and storage virtualization and pooling, including almost arbitrarily sized logical volumes (unrelated to the physical sizes of the used drives). ReFS was designed to overcome problems that had become significant over the years since NTFS was conceived, which are related to how data storage requirements had changed.
Resilient File System ( ReFS), codenamed 'Protogon', is a Microsoft proprietary file system introduced with Windows Server 2012 with the intent of becoming the 'next generation' file system after NTFS. com /en-US /windows-server /storage /refs /refs-overview Windows 8.1 and later (ReFS volume creation ability removed in Windows 10's 2017 Fall Creators Update, except for Windows 10 Enterprise and Pro for Workstations )ĭocs.
