The following is a list of file systems.
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 – Second extended filesystem, designed for Linux systems.
- Ext3 – Name for the journalled form of ext2.
- FAT – Used on DOS and Microsoft Windows, 12, 16 and 32 bit table depths
- FFS (Amiga) – Fast File System, used on Amiga systems. This FS has evolved over time. Now counts FFS1, FFS Intl, FFS DCache, FFS2.
- 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. Nice for floppies, but fairly useless on hard drives.
- 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 that uses journaling
- Reiser4 – Filesystem that uses journaling, newest version of ReiserFS
- SFS – Smart File System, journaled file system available for the Amiga platforms.
- 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
- VSAM
- XFS – Used on SGI IRIX and Linux systems
- ZFS – Used on Solaris 10
Network file systems
Special purpose file systems
See also
