6. NTFS File Names and Permissions

File permissions track users and groups and can prevent unauthorized access to a file.
Additional time stamps and hard links were added.
In order to gain POSIX compliance, case sEnSiTiVe file names are used:
- FAT saved everything in uppercase
- HPFS, while it did save the case of a file's name, referred to the same file no matter how you mixed the case when opening it
- Under NTFS
```
    README.TXT
    Readme.txt
    readme.txt
```
are all different files.

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