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NTFS Misreports Free Space?

I have recently seen a number of issues where customers called in to report a significant difference between the “Size on disk” for the root of a volume, and the reported amount of “Used space” in the volume properties. While considering this, I noticed
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NTDebugging Puzzler 0x00000007: Interlocked functions

Today, we will have some fun with interlocked functions. The following section of code is reentrant. A “well meaning” developer used interlocked functions to avoid serializing on a global table lock. Initial smoke testing shows that the code works fine.
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Understanding NTFS Compression

As our group’s file systems expert, I see most of the common problems associated with the use/misuse of NTFS compression. Before you check the “Compress contents to save disk space” checkbox, it might be good to understand how this affects the happy little
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