File System Descriptions

Joshua Lokken joshua.lokken at gmail.com
Fri Dec 10 11:46:47 PST 2004


On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:48:37 +0300, Odhiambo Washington
<wash at wananchi.com> wrote:
> Dear people,
> 
> Does anyone know of a place where they describe the differences between
> the commonly known filesystem types - UFS, UFS2, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3,
> REISERFS, FAT32 (spit!) .. well, mostly the ones related to Unix I hope.
> I would like to know why one type is preferred over the others, or
> something like that.

http://www.parkautomat.net/fs-comp.html
http://www.allunix.org/_Filesystems_-_again-9309072-5726-a.html

Those look like they may contain some or most of the
filesystems you're inquiring about.   HTH,

-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate


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