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The whole of the NT kernel was essentially a futurized implementation of VAX-VMS.

Both VMS and NT had the same manager, in the person of Dave Cutler. Microsoft hired a large team away from DEC to build NT (which became the subject of litigation from DEC).

I have read that NTFS shares common architecture with Files-11/ODS-2&5 (native VMS filesystems). Aspects were also lifted from OS/2.

ZFS was developed a decade after NTFS. Most UNIX was still on FFS when NTFS was born.

https://wikimili.com/en/Files-11



Ext2 was AFAIK a FFS-style design.




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