ext4 (fourth extended filesystem) is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3. ext4 was initially a series of backward-compatible...

ext3, and ext4. It has metadata structure inspired by traditional Unix filesystem principles, and was designed by Rémy Card to overcome certain limitations...

for these problems, two new filesystems were developed in January 1993 for Linux kernel 0.99: xiafs and the second extended file system (ext2), which was...

ext3, or third extended filesystem, is a journaled file system that is commonly used with the Linux kernel. It used to be the default file system for...

Extended file attributes are file system features that enable users to associate computer files with metadata not interpreted by the filesystem, whereas...

Transaction-Safe FAT File System (TFAT) and Transaction-Safe Extended FAT File System (TexFAT) refer to two file systems used in Microsoft products to...

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is a reference describing the conventions used for the layout of Unix-like systems. It has been made popular by...

Second Extended Filesystem in 1994, Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem in 1998, and Planned Extensions to the Linux Ext2/Ext3 Filesystem in 2002...

first Linux distribution to introduce an option for XFS as the default filesystem in mid-2002. FreeBSD added read-only support for XFS in December 2005...

in directory structure and natively uses extended file names, whereas legacy FAT versions implement extended file names through the VFAT extension. Windows...

for VFAT long filenames began with version 3.5. Linux provides a VFAT filesystem driver to work with FAT volumes with VFAT long filenames. For some time...

critical ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem metadata to a file e2label change the label on an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem e2scrub check a filesystem "online" (i.e. without...

which is the archetypal use of pattern matching against the names in a filesystem directory such that a name pattern is expanded into a list of names matching...

Commodore Amiga Smart File System (SFS) defragmented itself while the filesystem was in use. The defragmentation process is almost completely stateless...

filesystem) A superblock, containing a magic number identifying this as a UFS filesystem, and some other vital numbers describing this filesystem's geometry...

In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. A local file system is a capability of...

Extended Filesystem family (ext2, ext3, ext4), and are available as part of the e2fsprogs package. However, the functionality has since been extended...

maintainer of e2fsprogs, the userspace utilities for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems, and is a maintainer for the ext4 file system. Ts'o graduated from MIT...

A log-structured filesystem is a file system in which data and metadata are written sequentially to a circular buffer, called a log. The design was first...

implementation; the first implementation of ACLs was in the filesystem of Multics in 1965. A filesystem ACL is a data structure (usually a table) containing...

Filesystem-level encryption, often called file-based encryption, FBE, or file/folder encryption, is a form of disk encryption where individual files or...

may not support extended attributes on FAT12 and FAT16. The OS/2 and Windows NT filesystem drivers for FAT12 and FAT16 support extended attributes (using...

a part of the interface. For instance, the various filesystem servers each implement the filesystem calls. The storage server will work as a wrapping layer...

Ext3cow or third extended filesystem with copy-on-write is an open source, versioning file system based on the ext3 file system. Versioning is implemented...

An extended boot record (EBR), or extended partition boot record (EPBR), is a descriptor for a logical partition under the common DOS disk drive partitioning...

Sons. ISBN 0-471-98141-9. Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem - written by Rémy Card, Theodore Ts'o and Stephen Tweedie, published...

metadata checksumming, and synchronization to other filesystems or nodes. It lacks support for extended file attributes ("xattr"). The HAMMER2 file system...

manipulate the partitions. Partitioning allows the use of different filesystems to be installed for different kinds of files. Separating user data from...

Linux Enterprise in August. In 2015, Btrfs was adopted as the default filesystem for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLE) 12. In August 2017, Red Hat announced...

HFS Plus or HFS+ (also known as Mac OS Extended or HFS Extended) is a journaling file system developed by Apple Inc. It replaced the Hierarchical File...