The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of
file systems
In computing, file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to fs) is a method and data structure that the operating system uses to control how data is stored and retrieved. Without a file system, data placed in a storage medium would be one larg ...
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General information
Limits
Metadata
Features
File capabilities
Block capabilities
Note that in addition to the below table, block capabilities can be implemented below the file system layer in Linux (
LVM, integritysetup,
cryptsetup) or Windows (
Volume Shadow Copy Service,
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Resize capabilities
"online" and "offline" are synonymous with "mounted" and "not mounted".
Allocation and layout policies
OS support
See also
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List of file systems
The following lists identify, characterize, and link to more thorough information on Computer file systems.
Many older operating systems support only their one "native" file system, which does not bear any name apart from the name of the operating ...
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Comparison of file archivers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file archivers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. They are neither all-inclusive nor are some entries necessarily up to date. Unless ...
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List of archive formats
This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files.
Archiving only
Compression only
Archiving and compression
Data recovery
Comparison Containers and compression
Notes
While the original ...
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Comparison of archive formats
Notes
References
External links
A speed comparison of filesystems on Linux 2.4.5(archived)
Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304191727/https://debian-administration.org/article/388/Filesystems_ext3_reiser_xfs_jfs_comparison_on_Debian_Etch , date=2018-03-04 (April 23, 2006)
Block allocation strategies of various filesystemsWhat are the (dis)advantages of ext4, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
File systems
In computing, file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to fs) is a method and data structure that the operating system uses to control how data is stored and retrieved. Without a file system, data placed in a storage medium would be one larg ...