MFT
Noun
Meaning
(computing, architecture) Initialism of Managed file transfer.
(computing) Initialism of Master File Table.
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For non-resident attributes, their allocation map must fit within MFT records.
For instance, large HDDs with only one NTFS file system typically have a very large sequentially accessed Master File Table (MFT) and it generally takes more time to read this MFT than the smaller MFTs of smaller partitions.
Expanded the Master File Table (MFT) entries with redundant MFT record number (useful for recovering damaged MFT files).
For files on a multi-GB volume, each entry can be encoded as 5 to 7 bytes, which means a 1 KB MFT record can store about 100 such data runs.
Hard links may link to files in the same volume only because each volume has its own MFT.