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Filesystems are [[Electronic_File_Formats|Electronic Formats]] that are a prerequisite to being able to read any file off a digital medium — you have to be able to mount the filesystem, and thus read it, in order to be able to read a file. | Filesystems are [[Electronic_File_Formats|Electronic Formats]] that are a prerequisite to being able to read any file off a digital medium — you have to be able to mount the filesystem, and thus read it, in order to be able to read a file. | ||
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| + | == Single-system filesystems == | ||
| + | (how files are organized on one system or device, such as a disk, tape, or flash memory; see next category for networked and cloud filesystems) | ||
* [[Acer Fast Filesystem]] (SCO OpenServer) | * [[Acer Fast Filesystem]] (SCO OpenServer) | ||
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* [[AdvFS]](Advanced File System, Digital/Tru64 Unix) | * [[AdvFS]](Advanced File System, Digital/Tru64 Unix) | ||
* [[Ami File Safe]] (Amiga) | * [[Ami File Safe]] (Amiga) | ||
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* [[APF Imagination Machine disk file system]] | * [[APF Imagination Machine disk file system]] | ||
* [[Apple DOS file system]] (Apple II; see also ProDOS below) | * [[Apple DOS file system]] (Apple II; see also ProDOS below) | ||
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* [[Fossil]] (Plan 9) | * [[Fossil]] (Plan 9) | ||
* [[fuse-exFAT]] (open-source clone of exFAT) | * [[fuse-exFAT]] (open-source clone of exFAT) | ||
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* [[HAMMER]] (DragonflyBSD) | * [[HAMMER]] (DragonflyBSD) | ||
* [[HFS]] | * [[HFS]] | ||
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* [[LogFS]] | * [[LogFS]] | ||
* [[MDR (Floppy Disk)|MDR]] (audio instrument format close to MSDOS) | * [[MDR (Floppy Disk)|MDR]] (audio instrument format close to MSDOS) | ||
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* [[MFS]] (ancient Macintosh filesystem) | * [[MFS]] (ancient Macintosh filesystem) | ||
* [[MINIX file system]] | * [[MINIX file system]] | ||
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* [[YAFFS]] | * [[YAFFS]] | ||
* [[ZFS]] | * [[ZFS]] | ||
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| + | == Networked and cloud filesystems == | ||
| + | (used to make files available to multiple systems over a local or wide area network, including "on the cloud" via the Internet; systems access files through a protocol or API. The low-level storage details, usually concealed from end users and even most developers, may be within one or more of the single-device filesystems above.) | ||
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| + | * [[Andrew File System]] (Carnegie Mellon University) | ||
| + | * [[Google Drive]] | ||
| + | * [[Google File System]] | ||
| + | * [[Hadoop Distributed File System]] | ||
| + | * [[MEGA file system]] | ||
== Format details == | == Format details == | ||
Revision as of 12:02, 1 November 2013
Filesystems are Electronic Formats that are a prerequisite to being able to read any file off a digital medium — you have to be able to mount the filesystem, and thus read it, in order to be able to read a file.
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Single-system filesystems
(how files are organized on one system or device, such as a disk, tape, or flash memory; see next category for networked and cloud filesystems)
- Acer Fast Filesystem (SCO OpenServer)
- ADFS (Acorn MOS, RISC OS)
- AdvFS(Advanced File System, Digital/Tru64 Unix)
- Ami File Safe (Amiga)
- APF Imagination Machine disk file system
- Apple DOS file system (Apple II; see also ProDOS below)
- Atari File Management Subsystem (FMS: Atari 400/800)
- AthFS (AtheOS/Syllable)
- BFS (BeOS)
- btrfs (Linux)
- CBMFS (Commodore 64, PET, etc.)
- Compucolor file system
- CP/M file system
- DDFS (Data Domain File System)
- DTFS (Desktop File System, SCO OpenServer)
- EFS (Extent File System, SGI IRIX. Replaced by XFS)
- EOS file system (Coleco Adam "data pack" tape drives and disks)
- exFAT (Microsoft, for flash memory)
- ext (developed for Linux, previously used MINIX fs)
- ext2, ext3, ext4 (these are all just variants of each other)
- F2FS, (Flash Friendly Filesystem)
- FAT8
- FAT12
- FAT16
- FAT32
- FFS (Amiga Fast File System)
- Files-11 (VMS)
- Fossil (Plan 9)
- fuse-exFAT (open-source clone of exFAT)
- HAMMER (DragonflyBSD)
- HFS
- HFS+
- HPFS (OS/2 native file system)
- ISO 9660
- JFFS2
- LanyFS (Lanyard Filesystem)
- LogFS
- MDR (audio instrument format close to MSDOS)
- MFS (ancient Macintosh filesystem)
- MINIX file system
- NILFS2
- NetWare File System (Novell NetWare, replaced by NSS)
- NSS (Novell Storage Services)
- NTFS
- POHMELFS (distributed Linux filesystem)
- PRAMFS (Persistent & Protected RAM File-System)
- ProDOS file system (Apple)
- QFS
- ReFS (Microsoft's new FS- Resilient Filesystem, on Windows 8 Server)
- ReiserFS
- SDFS (Deduplication based filesystem)
- SkyFS (SkyOS)
- SMB (Server Message Block, a protocol for a networked filesystem)
- SOS file system (Apple III)
- squashfs
- UCSD p-System Filesystem (UCSD Pascal)
- UDF
- UFS (Unix Files System, Solaris and BSD)
- VMUFAT (Filesystem for Dreamcast VMU units)
- VxFS
- WAFL (NetApp's commercial file system)
- Xiafs (Linux, dropped in favour of ext2)
- XFS (SGI)
- XtreemFS, (Linux, distributed file system)
- YAFFS
- ZFS
Networked and cloud filesystems
(used to make files available to multiple systems over a local or wide area network, including "on the cloud" via the Internet; systems access files through a protocol or API. The low-level storage details, usually concealed from end users and even most developers, may be within one or more of the single-device filesystems above.)
- Andrew File System (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Google Drive
- Google File System
- Hadoop Distributed File System
- MEGA file system
Format details
- AppleDouble
- AppleSingle
- desktop.ini (Windows)
- Desktop Services Store (Mac OS X)
- MBR (Master Boot Record)
- Resource Fork (MacOS)
