Ars Technica has posted the second part of their NTFS guide.

What´s in Part II? Part II is all about NTFS as it stands in Windows 2000. I´m going to cover most of the more highly touted features of the semi-new filesystem, including Encrypting Filesystem (EFS), Distributed Link Tracking, Quotas, and more. NTFS 5.0, as it´s called in Windows 2000, is an important new step in the world of Win32 OSes, and even folks who don´t use NTWin2K should be interested. How is it important? Well, from an overview perspective, most of the new techs that I covered in Windows 2000: 5-n-5 Top Features require the added functionality laid down by the new NTFS release. No matter what you´re using now, if you´re a Microsoft OS user, you´ll be getting acquainted with a form of NTFS in the near future.

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