File system fragmentation — In computing, file system fragmentation, sometimes called file system aging, is the inability of a file system to lay out related data sequentially (contiguously), an inherent phenomenon in storage backed file systems that allow in place… … Wikipedia
Extent (file systems) — An extent is a contiguous area of storage in a computer file system, reserved for a file. When starting to write to a file, a whole extent is allocated. When writing to the file again, possibly after doing other write operations, the data… … Wikipedia
JFS (file system) — infobox filesystem name = JFS full name = IBM Journaled File System developer = IBM et al. introduction os = JFS1 in AIX 3.1 and JFS in OS/2 4.5 introduction date = 1990 and 1999 partition id = 0x35 (MBR) file struct = Bitmap/extents bad blocks… … Wikipedia
Hierarchical File System — Infobox filesystem name = HFS full name = Hierarchical File System developer = Apple Computer introduction os = System 2.1 introduction date = September 17 1985 partition id = Apple HFS (Apple Partition Map) 0xAF (MBR) directory struct = B* tree… … Wikipedia
Virtual file system — A virtual file system (VFS) or virtual filesystem switch is an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system. The purpose of a VFS is to allow client applications to access different types of concrete file systems in a uniform way. A… … Wikipedia
Be File System — BFS Developer Be Inc. Full name Be File System Introduced May 10, 1997 (BeOS Advanced Access Preview Release[1]) Partition identifier Be BFS (Apple Partition Map) 0xEB (MBR) … Wikipedia
Veritas File System — For other uses, see Veritas (disambiguation). VERITAS File System Full name VERITAS File System Introduced 1991 Structures Directory contents extensible hash Limits Max file size 8 EB ( … Wikipedia
Journaled File System — JFS Hersteller IBM Vollständige Bezeichnung Journaled File System Erstveröffentlichung 1990 (AIX) Technische Umsetzung Verzeichnisse JFS: Linear, JFS2: B+ Baum … Deutsch Wikipedia
High Performance File System — infobox filesystem name = HPFS full name = High Performance File System developer = Microsoft introduction os = OS/2 1.2 introduction date = November 1989 partition id = 0x07 (MBR) directory struct = B+ tree file struct = B+ tree bad blocks… … Wikipedia
File format — A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice … Wikipedia