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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen ThinkBou for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, August 20, when Microsoft launched Windows 8 in December 2011, it also introduced a new file system called ReFS (Resilient File System). Compared with NTFS (New Technology File System, new technology file system), ReFS has many advantages, such as higher damage resistance, better performance (such as on virtual machines), larger data capacity support (ReFS supports up to 35PB, while NTFS only supports 256TB).

So far, however, this new generation of file systems has been limited to Windows Server. In fact, Microsoft limited ReFS support on Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise Edition in 2017.

CTOnews.com noted that in January this year, the company began allowing Windows 11 to be installed on ReFS volumes, which meant that Microsoft wanted to bring ReFS to a wider user base. At that time, if users wanted to try to run Windows on such a file system, they had to do a fresh installation and could not upgrade in place. That is about to change, however, as the latest Windows 11 Canary version 25931 begins to support in-place upgrades.

Twitter users and Windows enthusiasts Xeno have found that ReFS volumes can be upgraded in place in their Windows 11 Canary channel version 25931. As shown in the figure above, a process of upgrading Windows 11 in place on ReFS volumes was simulated in the new Canary version 25931, and the installer worked normally, which failed in previous versions.

This is not the only progress Microsoft has made in supporting ReFS on Windows 11, and the company has updated the file system version from 3.0.9 to 3.10. However, it may take a while before ReFS becomes an installation option for all users, and it is more likely that Microsoft will offer both NTFS and ReFS.

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