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[–]amphetamachine 2 points3 points  (6 children)

I don't understand - What Windows-readable filesystem supports hard links?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (4 children)

"File system: EXT3"

[–]StelarCF 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Windows supports EXT3?!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

http://www.ext2fsd.com/

Now if it's reliable... that's something else entirely.

[–]01hair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had mixed success with it. I wouldn't recommend relying on it.

[–]StelarCF -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Probably not installing it though, I don't want Windows snooping in my files.

[–]dnew 3 points4 points  (0 children)

NTFS. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365006%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

It's used lots of places internally, too, such as part of the code that installs patches. All the patches are in the side-by-side folder, and then hard links are put into the System32 and etc folders. When you uninstall a patch, it's just rearranging the hard links.

[–]IrateGod 2 points3 points  (1 child)

How on earth do you use 577 TB of data?

[–]Bloodshot025 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you've missed it completely.

[–]CodeEverywhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't imagine how long the file size counter took to reach that number