NTFS General properties
  Supports transaction logging and checkpoints (Journaling)
    Meaning its possible to reverse an action.
    * Makes NTFS less than optimal on a solid-state drive.

  Monitors and patches bad clusters on the fly.

  Extended security support and access,
    ownership (user and group) of files allowing for restricted access.
   
    Configurable at volume, directory, file levels.

    Read, write, run, append, create, delete, attribute modification, etc.

  Provides encryption.
   At file, directory, or volume level.

  Provides dynamic compression.
   At file, directory, or volume level.

  Provides disk quotas.

  Filenames up to 255 characters.

  Supports hard links - must be on same volume.
    Multiple names that reference a single file record.

  Supports symbolic linking (NT 5)
    Linking to files across partitions, drives, and even the network.

  NTFS 5 offers facilities to track and adjust links if original file moved. 

  Reparse points - allows mounting of new storage devices as directories in 
    current filesystem by allowing specific device drivers to be associated 
    with the mount point. Also allows a particular directory to be listed and 
    accesable in several other directories.  

    * Allows user to retrain NTFS to talk to a new device and treat it 
      as a file.

  Volume mount points and Directory Junctions - like Unix mount points
    (Volume mounting makes use of reparse points)