List of file systems

Disk file systems

• BFS – the Be File System used on BeOS
• DFS – ADFS – Acorn filing systems.
• EFS – Encrypted filesystem, An extension of NTFS
• EFS (IRIX) – an older block filing system under IRIX.
• Ext – Extended filesystem, designed for Linux systems
• Ext2 – Extended filesystem 2, designed for Linux systems
• Ext3 – Extended filesystem 3, designed for Linux systems, (ext2+journalling)
• FAT – Used on DOS and Microsoft Windows, 12 and 16 bit table depths
• FAT32 – FAT with 32 bit table depth
• FFS (Amiga) – Fast File System, used on Amiga systems. Nice for floppies, but fairly useless on hard drives.
• FFS – Fast File System, used on *BSD systems
• Files-11 – OpenVMS filesystem
• HFS – Hierarchical File System, used on older Mac OS systems
• HFS Plus – Used on newer Mac OS systems
• HFSX – case sensitive variant of HFS+
• HPFS – High Performance Filesystem, used on OS/2
• ISO 9660 – Used on CD and DVD-ROM discs (Rock Ridge and Joliet are extensions to this)
• JFS – IBM Journaling Filesystem, provided in Linux, OS/2, and AIX
• kfs
• LFS – Log-structured filesystem
• MFS – Macintosh File System, used on early Mac OS systems
• Minix file system – Used on Minix systems
• NTFS – Used on Windows NT based systems
• OFS – Old File System, on Amiga.
• PFS – and PFS2, PFS3, etc. Technically interesting filesystem available for the Amiga, performs very well under a lot of circumstances. Very simple and elegant.
• ReiserFS – Filesystem which uses journaling
• Reiser4 – Filesystem which uses journaling, newest version of ReiserFS
• SFS – Safe File System, available for the Amiga.
• Sprite – The original log-structured filesystem.
• UDF – Packet based filesystem for WORM/RW media such as CD-RW and DVD.
• UFS – Unix Filesystem, used on older BSD systems
• UFS2 – Unix Filesystem, used on newer BSD systems
• UMSDOS – FAT filesystem extended to store permissions and metadata, used for Linux.
• VxFS – Veritas file system, first commercial journaling file system; HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, AIX
• XFS – Used on SGI IRIX and Linux systems

Network file systems

• AFS (Andrew File System)
• AppleShare
• CIFS (sometimes also called SMB or Samba filesystems)
• Coda
• GFS
• InterMezzo
• Lustre
• NFS

Special purpose file systems

• acme (Plan 9) (text windows)
• archfs (archive)
• cdfs (reading and writing of CDs)
• cfs (caching)
• DEVFS
• ftpfs (ftp access)
• lnfs (long names)
• nntpfs (netnews)
• plumber (Plan 9) (interprocess communication – pipes)
• PROCFS
• ROMFS
• TMPFS
• wikifs (wiki wiki)