ReiserFS is a general-purpose, journaling file system initially designed and implemented by a team at Namesys led by Hans Reiser and licensed under GPLv2...
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the development of both file systems. Hans Thomas Reiser was born in Oakland, California to Ramon and Beverly (née Kleiber) Reiser and grew up in the same...
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Files-11, Veritas File System, VMFS, ZFS, ReiserFS, NSS and ScoutFS. Some disk file systems are journaling file systems or versioning file systems. ISO...
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Installable File System (IFS) is a filesystem API in MS-DOS/PC DOS 4.x, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows that enables the operating system to recognize...
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Microsoft Windows has file system APIs for NTFS and several FAT file systems. Linux systems can include APIs for ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, and Btrfs to name...
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Journaled File System (JFS) is a 64-bit journaling file system created by IBM. There are versions for AIX, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS and Linux operating...
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journaling for ReiserFS was added to Linux 2.6.8. Optionally no on IRIX and Linux. Particular Installable File System drivers and operating systems may not support...
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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....
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server environments. ReiserFS – File system that uses journaling Reiser4 – File system that uses journaling, newest version of ReiserFS Reliance – Datalight's...
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HAMMER is a high-availability 64-bit file system developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFly BSD using B+ trees. Its major features include infinite NFS-exportable...
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Systems Research Group Launchpad Blueprints: A tag-based filesystem for Ubuntu ReiserFS future vision external list of related work on semantic file systems...
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A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering...
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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...
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Hans Reiser, Namesys was based in Oakland, California and also operated in Russia[citation needed]. The company also provided support for Linux systems. The...
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Windows can read from, but not write to, Ext2 and Ext3 file systems. Windows can also access ReiserFS through rfstool and related programs. Comparison of...
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Soft updates (category Unix file system technology)
Soft updates is an approach to maintaining file system metadata integrity in the event of a crash or power outage. Soft updates work by tracking and enforcing...
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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)...
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of an existing journaling file system such as ext3, JFS, ReiserFS or XFS. It was developed around 1999. An InterMezzo system consists of a server, which...
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JFFS2 (category Disk file systems)
Journalling Flash File System version 2 or JFFS2 is a log-structured file system for use with flash memory devices. It is the successor to JFFS. JFFS2...
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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...
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Software". Wirth attributed the saying to Martin Reiser, who in the preface to his book on the Oberon System wrote: "The hope is that the progress in hardware...
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Undeletion (redirect from File undeletion)
The Trash bin feature uses undelete attributes in ext2/3/4 and Reiser file systems. Norton UNERASE was an important component in Norton Utilities version...
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Btrfs (redirect from Btfrs file system)
Mason, an engineer working on ReiserFS for SUSE at the time, joined Oracle later that year and began work on a new file system based on B-trees. In 2008,...
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Steganographic file systems are a kind of file system first proposed by Ross Anderson, Roger Needham, and Adi Shamir. Their paper proposed two main methods...
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Unix-like systems, the ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS version 3, XFS, JFS, FFS, and HFS+ filesystems allow the storage of extended attributes with files. These...
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Block suballocation (category Computer file systems)
usage, ReiserFS and Ext2fs". Archived from the original on 13 November 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2006. Hans Reiser (2001). "ReiserFS file system design"...
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Ext3 (category Disk file systems)
ext3 also uses less CPU power than ReiserFS and XFS. It is also considered safer than the other Linux file systems, due to its relative simplicity and...
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Write Ahead Physical Block Logging (category Unix file system technology)
Logging (WAPBL) provides meta data journaling for file systems in conjunction with Fast File System (FFS) to accomplish rapid filesystem consistency after...
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Interface and programmers reference is found in Martin Reiser's book "The Oberon System". The Oberon System was later extended and ported to other hardware platforms...
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