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* [[DTFS]] (Desktop File System, [[SCO OpenServer]])
 
* [[DTFS]] (Desktop File System, [[SCO OpenServer]])
 
* [[EFS]] (Extent File System, SGI IRIX. Replaced by [[XFS]])
 
* [[EFS]] (Extent File System, SGI IRIX. Replaced by [[XFS]])
* [[EOS file system (Coleco)]] (Coleco Adam "data pack" tape drives and disks)
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* [[EOS file system (Coleco)]] (Coleco ADAM "data pack" tape drives and disks)
 
* [[ext]] (developed for Linux, previously used MINIX fs)
 
* [[ext]] (developed for Linux, previously used MINIX fs)
 
* [[ext2]], [[ext3]], [[ext4]] (these are all just variants of each other)
 
* [[ext2]], [[ext3]], [[ext4]] (these are all just variants of each other)
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* [[MINIX file system]]
 
* [[MINIX file system]]
 
* [[NILFS]] (and NILFS2)
 
* [[NILFS]] (and NILFS2)
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* [[North Star DOS file system]]
 
* [[NOVA (filesystem)|NOVA]]
 
* [[NOVA (filesystem)|NOVA]]
 
* [[NTFS]]
 
* [[NTFS]]
 
* [[OFS]] (Amiga Old File System)
 
* [[OFS]] (Amiga Old File System)
 
* [[PFS]] (Professional File System, Amiga)
 
* [[PFS]] (Professional File System, Amiga)
* [[POHMELFS]] (distributed Linux filesystem)
 
 
* [[PRAMFS]] (Persistent & Protected RAM File-System)
 
* [[PRAMFS]] (Persistent & Protected RAM File-System)
 
* [[ProDOS file system]] (Apple II) (also used in Apple III SOS)
 
* [[ProDOS file system]] (Apple II) (also used in Apple III SOS)
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* [[ReiserFS]]
 
* [[ReiserFS]]
 
** [[Reiser4]]
 
** [[Reiser4]]
* [[SDFS]] (Deduplication based filesystem)
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* [[SDFS]] (OpenDedup deduplication based filesystem)
 
* [[securefs]] [https://github.com/netheril96/securefs]
 
* [[securefs]] [https://github.com/netheril96/securefs]
 
* [[SFS (Amiga)|SFS]] (Smart File System, Amiga)
 
* [[SFS (Amiga)|SFS]] (Smart File System, Amiga)
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* [[Squashfs]]
 
* [[Squashfs]]
 
* [[TFS]] [https://github.com/redox-os/tfs]
 
* [[TFS]] [https://github.com/redox-os/tfs]
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* [[TI-99/4A file system]]
 
* [[TR-DOS filesystem]] (ZX Spectrum)
 
* [[TR-DOS filesystem]] (ZX Spectrum)
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* [[TRSDOS file system]] (Tandy)
 
* [[UBIFS]]
 
* [[UBIFS]]
 
* [[UCSD p-System Filesystem]] (UCSD Pascal)
 
* [[UCSD p-System Filesystem]] (UCSD Pascal)
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* [[Xiafs]] (Linux, dropped in favour of ext2)
 
* [[Xiafs]] (Linux, dropped in favour of ext2)
 
* [[XFS]] (SGI)
 
* [[XFS]] (SGI)
* [[XtreemFS]], (Linux, distributed file system)
 
 
* [[YAFFS]]
 
* [[YAFFS]]
 
* [[ZFS]]
 
* [[ZFS]]
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== Networked and cloud filesystems ==
 
== 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, and the networked/cloud filesystem is generally defined independently of such details and might have very different characteristics and rules as to how the files are named, addressed, and structured.)
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(Used to make files available to/from 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, and the networked/cloud filesystem is generally defined independently of such details and might have very different characteristics and rules as to how the files are named, addressed, and structured.)
  
 
* [[Amazon S3]]
 
* [[Amazon S3]]
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* [[OpenStack Swift]]
 
* [[OpenStack Swift]]
 
* [[Permacoin]] (also a [[currency]])
 
* [[Permacoin]] (also a [[currency]])
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* [[POHMELFS]] (distributed Linux filesystem)
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* [[SDFS]] (OpenDedup deduplication based filesystem)
 
* [[SFS]] (SyncFS)
 
* [[SFS]] (SyncFS)
 
* [[SMB]] (Server Message Block, a protocol for a networked filesystem)
 
* [[SMB]] (Server Message Block, a protocol for a networked filesystem)
 
* [[Storj]] (another currency/filesystem scheme)
 
* [[Storj]] (another currency/filesystem scheme)
 
* [[WebDAV]] (network filesystem implemented as extensions to HTTP)
 
* [[WebDAV]] (network filesystem implemented as extensions to HTTP)
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* [[XtreemFS]], (Linux, distributed file system)
  
 
== Virtual filesystems ==
 
== Virtual filesystems ==
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* [[AVFS]]
 
* [[AVFS]]
 
* [[FUSE]]
 
* [[FUSE]]
* [[GVfs (GNOME)]]
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* [[GnomeVFS]]
* [[GVFS (Microsoft)]]
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** [[GVfs (GNOME)]]
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* [[Virtual File System for Git]] (was GVFS)
  
 
== Other / Misc. ==
 
== Other / Misc. ==
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* [[desktop.ini]] (Windows)
 
* [[desktop.ini]] (Windows)
 
* [[Desktop Services Store]] (Mac OS X)
 
* [[Desktop Services Store]] (Mac OS X)
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* [[DOS/Windows file attributes]]
 
* [[El Torito]]
 
* [[El Torito]]
 
* [[GUID Partition Table]]
 
* [[GUID Partition Table]]
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* [[Joliet]]
 
* [[Joliet]]
 
* [[Master Boot Record]] (MBR)
 
* [[Master Boot Record]] (MBR)
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* [[RAID]]
 
* [[Resource Fork]] (MacOS)
 
* [[Resource Fork]] (MacOS)
 
* [[Rock Ridge]]
 
* [[Rock Ridge]]

Revision as of 21:55, 8 September 2019

File Format
Name Filesystem
Ontology

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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, device, or medium, such as a disk, tape, or flash memory; see next category for networked and cloud filesystems. Of course, any filesystem can be made available on a network to remote devices, but these are the native filesystems present on the storage device/medium itself.)

Networked and cloud filesystems

(Used to make files available to/from 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, and the networked/cloud filesystem is generally defined independently of such details and might have very different characteristics and rules as to how the files are named, addressed, and structured.)

Virtual filesystems

Other / Misc.

File content signature

(used to match files to a hash table or similar system in order to detect duplicates, help find specific files when their exact location is unknown, handle distributed networked filesystems, etc. See also Error detection and correction.)

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