List of file systems
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Disk file systems
- ADFS – Acorn filing system, successor to DFS.
- BFS – the Be File System used on BeOS
- 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 – Updated version of HFS used on newer Mac OS systems
- HFSX – Updated version of HFS Plus to remove some backward compatibility limitations.
- HPFS – High Performance Filesystem, used on OS/2
- ISO 9660 – Used on CD-ROM 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
- NSS – Netware Storage Services. This is a new 64-bit journaling filesystem using a balanced tree algorithm. Used in Netware versions 5.0-up
- 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 – Smart 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
- ZFS – Used on Solaris 10
Network file systems
- AFS (Andrew File System)
- AppleShare
- CIFS (Microsoft's documented version of SMB)
- Coda
- GFS
- InterMezzo
- Lustre
- NFS
- OpenAFS
- SMB (sometimes also called Samba filesystem)
Special purpose file systems
- acme (Plan 9) (text windows)
- archfs (archive)
- cdfs (reading and writing of CDs)
- cfs (caching)
- Davfs2 (WebDAV)
- DEVFS
- ftpfs (ftp access)
- lnfs (long names)
- LUFS ( replace ftpfs, ftp ssh ... access)
- nntpfs (netnews)
- plumber (Plan 9) (interprocess communication – pipes)
- PROCFS
- ROMFS
- TMPFS
- wikifs (Plan 9) (wiki wiki)