REFS in Windows 8

[shankle]

I still want nothing to do with Windows 8.
The new file system replacing NTFS  is REFS.
Have no idea what problems this will cause with existing programs or if there is any
compatibility with NTFS.
I did my reading on the Wilders site.
  Software, hardware & General Services\Other software & Services
Then the article name is Win 8's all new File System.
Yuk......

[fearless]

From what ive read they have taken the good bits of NTFS and other new features (and borrowed some ideas from linux filesystems) to create the new filesystem, but it is incompatible, and as such for booting the OS (Win8 and previous) you still will need an NTFS partition.

[Tedd]

The file-system used shouldn't have any effect on software - files are still accessed through the same function calls.
It will, however, cause problems for low-level tools that want to access/modify the file-system directly; until they add support for the new file-system.