NT File System (NTFS) (commonly called New Technology File System) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft in the 1990s. It was...

Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed file system which uses a set of trusted servers to present a homogeneous, location-transparent file name space...

Encrypting File System (EFS) on Microsoft Windows is a feature introduced in version 3.0 of NTFS that provides filesystem-level encryption. The technology enables...

Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer...

Apple File System (APFS) is a proprietary file system developed and deployed by Apple Inc. for macOS Sierra (10.12.4) and later, iOS 10.3, tvOS 10.2,...

distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. The name Lustre is a portmanteau word derived from Linux and cluster. Lustre file system...

system – Used on Minix systems NILFS – Linux implementation of a log-structured file system NTFS – (New Technology File System) Used on Microsoft's Windows...

file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems...

hierarchical file system is a file system that uses directories to organize files into a tree structure. In a hierarchical file system, directories contain...

Journaled File System (JFS) is a 64-bit journaling file system created by IBM. There are versions for AIX, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS and Linux operating...

In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. A local file system is a capability of...

A versioning file system is any computer file system which allows a computer file to exist in several versions at the same time. Thus it is a form of revision...

The FAT file system is a file system used on MS-DOS and Windows 9x family of operating systems. It continues to be used on mobile devices and embedded...

Performance File System) is a file system created specifically for the OS/2 operating system to improve upon the limitations of the FAT file system. It was...

InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. By using...

File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default filesystem for the MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems...

Macintosh File System (MFS) is a volume format (or disk file system) created by Apple Computer for storing files on 400K floppy disks. MFS was introduced...

Distributed File System (DFS) is a set of client and server services that allow an organization using Microsoft Windows servers to organize many distributed...

computing, file system fragmentation, sometimes called file system aging, is the tendency of a file system to lay out the contents of files non-continuously...

A grid file system is a computer file system whose goal is improved reliability and availability by taking advantage of many smaller file storage areas...

Gfarm file system is an open-source distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing and wide-area data sharing, and provides...

The VERITAS File System (or VxFS; called JFS and OnlineJFS in HP-UX) is an extent-based file system. It was originally developed by VERITAS Software....

systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed to provide scalable, elastic, concurrent...

Semantic file systems are file systems used for information persistence which structure the data according to their semantics and intent, rather than...

Explorer) introduced new features and capabilities, removed other features, and generally progressed from being a simple file system navigation tool into...

Hierarchical File System (HFS) is a proprietary file system developed by Apple Inc. for use in computer systems running Mac OS. Originally designed for...

Unix-like computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or other input/output...

communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (IT system) is generally an information system, a communications system, or, more specifically...

location-aware IBRIX Fusion file system driver. In May 2011, MapR Technologies Inc. announced the availability of an alternative file system for Hadoop, MapR FS...