Apple has long been supported the universal and simplistic FAT file system with both read and write access, and added read-only support for NTFS back in 2003 in OS X 10.3 “Panther” because of stability and its compatibility with NTFS file system technology. and v3.1: Released with Windows XP in Autumn, 2001 (and subsequently used also for Windows Vista,Windows 7,Windows 8 and Windows 10). NTFS has been released in 5 different versions starting from v1.0: Released with Windows NT 3.1 in 1993, v1.1: Released with Windows NT 3.51 in 1995, v1.2: Released with Windows NT 4.0 in 1996, v3.0: Released with Windows 2000. NTFS (New Technology File System) is a Microsoft’s proprietary journaling file system that uses the NTFS Log ($LogFile) to record metadata changes to the volume just like ext3/4 ( third/fourth extended filesystem) used by Linux, HFS used in Apple, JFS used with IBM’s enterprise servers, Linux and IBM’s OS/2.
