The whole of the NT kernel was essentially a futurized implementation of VAX-VMS.
Both VMS and NT had the same manager, in the person of Dave Cutler. Microsoft hired a large team away from DEC to build NT (which became the subject of litigation from DEC).
I have read that NTFS shares common architecture with Files-11/ODS-2&5 (native VMS filesystems). Aspects were also lifted from OS/2.
ZFS was developed a decade after NTFS. Most UNIX was still on FFS when NTFS was born.
Ext2 was AFAIK a FFS-style design.
Re:NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver
by Dylan16807 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @10:33PM
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At least that 'garbage' hasn't died on me like the majority of my BTRFS partitions have. (Thankfully they all mostly still worked in read-only mode.)
HN gets all bent out of shape about minor differences between btrfs and zfs. Like how zfs supports raid5/6 but btrfs raid5/6 support is immature. Meanwhile NTFS doesn't even support checksumming, multiple block devices, copy on write, the performance on SSDs is garbage, etc etc.