Microsoft is switching to the Resilient File System for Windows 8

ReFS is built on the foundation of the current and almost 20-year-old NTFS file system. But it's been designed from the ground floor to offer several advantages, particularly for servers.
As described in the latest Building Windows 8 blog by Surendra Verma, a development manager on Microsoft's Storage and File System team, ReFS will be unveiled and phased in as part of Windows Server 8, so IT administrators will be able to give it a spin by the end of the year.
Since ReFS uses a subset of features from NTFS, it's designed to maintain backward compatibility with its older counterpart. So Windows 8 clients will be able to read and write to ReFS hard-drive partitions and shares on a server, just as they can now do with those running NTFS. But..................
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