Except that millions of developers routinely make use of file permissions; as ev...

OJFord · on July 20, 2016

Actually, I'm not going to shy away from it. I'd be willing to bet that a clear majority haven't heard of alternate data streams.

There are too many developers who care not for NTFS at all, never mind some little-used feature, for that not to be true.

tracker1 · on July 20, 2016

I really like NTFS as a file system... seems to offer a lot more than many other file systems, and pretty interestingly so for as old as it is now. That said, hopefully broader adoption can happen when the patents expire (ugh, in 7 years). Maybe the "new" MS could be convinced to create a royalty-free spec release/promise.

Would love for NTFS to become default for external storage, I already use it, but getting it on macOS and Linux isn't always as straight forward as it could be. NTFS-3G ftw.

viraptor · on July 20, 2016

But millions of developers also go "I don't get how it works, just make it world-writable". Not sure they understand either.