File Systems





File Systems
(alphabetical order)

AFS
CIFS
CODA
Ext2
GFS
MS-DOS
NFS
NTFS
Odyssey
Samba
UNIX

I know there are more FSs, but I haven't had the time yet to add them to this site.

Some definitions and general technology

Introduction


To be honest, I don't have any particular reason for writing these pages about the different file systems (and with an emphasis on distributed file systems). I've read loads of articles, webpages and some books about different implementations of file systems, and writing an overview/summaries is the easiest way to remember all the stuff. Hopefully some of you will find these pages helpful, or even useful, and will give you at least some insight in the matter.


P.S.: At the moment there's only potentially useful information on the
NTFS, AFS, Ext2, Samba and MS-DOS pages;
the concepts & definitions, UNIX and CIFS pages are halfway under construction.