RayW
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| Before too much mud is slung - They are talking about tagging files with a checksum using tagging NTFS-identifiers. Now we all know that Microsoft has a bad habit of giving and taking away 'hidden'/'undocumented' (note the tick marks) features, so just exactly was/is this NTFS-identifiers used for? Has the purpose of this NTFS-identifiers changed over the years (again, Microsoft has done that in the past and then blamed others for misuse of that changed feature).
Once the history and use of the NTFS-identifiers has been laid out, what does CHKDSK now do that using this feature(s) in another application breaks it? Has CHKDSK changed over the years to make the use of NTFS-identifiers by other applications problematic?
If you can, please post links to relevant (NOT Wikipedia!) sites that will help folks like me who are not as smart as others here know what you are talking about.
This subject is one that has a very high polarization potential, so maybe if people stop and think before posting, we might learn a bit about what is going on.
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