information on file systems. Many older operating systems support only their one "native" file system, which does not bear any name apart from the name of the operating...

compare general and technical information for a number of file systems. All widely used file systems record a last modified time stamp (also known as "mtime")...

File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. Examples of operating systems that do not impose this limit include Unix-like systems, and Microsoft Windows NT...

of the computer main memory can be set up as a RAM disk that serves as a storage device for a file system. File systems such as tmpfs can store files...

Default file system used in various operating systems. List of file systems Comparison of file systems List of partition IDs (MBR) Master Boot Record (MBR)...

file system family: ext2, the second extended file system. ext3, the third extended file system. ext4, the fourth extended file system. List of file systems...

clustering, most of which do not employ a clustered file system (only direct attached storage for each node). Clustered file systems can provide features...

command for changing access permissions of a file lsattr List attributes Comparison of file systems § Metadata "File and Folder Permissions". Microsoft. 9...

The Unix file system (UFS) is a family of file systems supported by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original...

cluster. Lustre file system software is available under the GNU General Public License (version 2 only) and provides high performance file systems for computer...

file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems...

load drivers for file systems. When IBM and Microsoft were co-developing OS/2, they realized that the FAT file system did not offer some of the features modern...

The FAT file system is a file system used on MS-DOS and Windows 9x family of operating systems. It continues to be used on mobile devices and embedded...

and different consistency models. Distributed file system List of file systems, the Distributed file systems section "Caching: Managing Data Replication...

space character is shown as ␠. List of filename extensions - alternative for file type identification and parsing List of file formats Magic number (programming)...

of storage reserved for a file in a file system, represented as a range of block numbers, or tracks on count key data devices. A file can consist of zero...

systems it supports. Microsoft Windows has file system APIs for NTFS and several FAT file systems. Linux systems can include APIs for ext2, ext3, ReiserFS...

the list of cryptographic file systems. When an operating system is running on a system without file encryption, access to files normally goes through OS-controlled...

computing, file system fragmentation, sometimes called file system aging, is the tendency of a file system to lay out the contents of files non-continuously...

a computer file system, a fork is a set of data associated with a file-system object. File systems without forks only allow a single set of data for the...

versioning file systems keep a number of old copies of the file. Some limit the number of changes per minute or per hour to avoid storing large numbers of trivial...

first file system available as an unbundled product. Dan Koren is cited as one of the original developers of VxFS. He notes in a mailing list that they...

of customers' AIX systems. Historically, the JFS1 file system is very closely tied to the memory manager of AIX, which is a typical design for a file...

other file systems, GFS is not implemented in the kernel of an operating system, but is instead provided as a userspace library. The Google File System does...

the file as a list of node names, with the items in the list separated by path separators. The path separator is > on Multics, / on Unix-like systems, and...

operating systems, the contents of the hosts file is used preferentially to other name resolution methods, such as the Domain Name System (DNS), but...

writes to the file system normally, while the client fetches, or "hoards", all of the data the user has listed as important in the event of network disconnection...

systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....

that applications can access files on local file systems of those types without having to know what type of file system they are accessing. A VFS specifies...

Comparison of file systems Design of the FAT file system Drive letter assignment List of file systems Transaction-Safe FAT File System Since Windows...