Which File System is natively supported by Windows Mac and Linux operating systems?
The following lists identify, characterize, and link to more thorough information on Computer file systems. Many older operating systems support only their one "native" file system, which does not bear any name apart from the name of the operating system itself. Show
Disk file systems[edit]Disk file systems are usually block-oriented. Files in a block-oriented file system are sequences of blocks, often featuring fully random-access read, write, and modify operations.
File systems with built-in fault-tolerance[edit]These file systems have built-in checksumming and either mirroring or parity for extra redundancy on one or several block devices:
File systems optimized for flash memory, solid state media[edit]Solid state media, such as flash memory, are similar to disks in their interfaces, but have different problems. At low level, they require special handling such as wear leveling and different error detection and correction algorithms. Typically a device such as a solid-state drive handles such operations internally and therefore a regular file system can be used. However, for certain specialized installations (embedded systems, industrial applications) a file system optimized for plain flash memory is advantageous.
Record-oriented file systems[edit]In record-oriented file systems files are stored as a collection of records. They are typically associated with mainframe and minicomputer operating systems. Programs read and write whole records, rather than bytes or arbitrary byte ranges, and can seek to a record boundary but not within records. The more sophisticated record-oriented file systems have more in common with simple databases than with other file systems.
Shared-disk file systems[edit]Shared-disk file systems (also called shared-storage file systems, SAN file system, Clustered file system or even cluster file systems) are primarily used in a storage area network where all nodes directly access the block storage where the file system is located. This makes it possible for nodes to fail without affecting access to the file system from the other nodes. Shared-disk file systems are normally used in a high-availability cluster together with storage on hardware RAID. Shared-disk file systems normally do not scale over 64 or 128 nodes. Shared-disk file systems may be symmetric where metadata is distributed among the nodes or asymmetric with centralized metadata servers.
Distributed file systems[edit]Distributed file systems are also called network file systems. Many implementations have been made, they are location dependent and they have access control lists (ACLs), unless otherwise stated below.
Distributed fault-tolerant file systems[edit]Distributed fault-tolerant replication of data between nodes (between servers or servers/clients) for high availability and offline (disconnected) operation.
Distributed parallel file systems[edit]Distributed parallel file systems stripe data over multiple servers for high performance. They are normally used in high-performance computing (HPC). Some of the distributed parallel file systems use an object storage device (OSD) (in Lustre called OST) for chunks of data together with centralized metadata servers.
Distributed parallel fault-tolerant file systems[edit]Distributed file systems, which also are parallel and fault tolerant, stripe and replicate data over multiple servers for high performance and to maintain data integrity. Even if a server fails no data is lost. The file systems are used in both high-performance computing (HPC) and high-availability clusters. All file systems listed here focus on high availability, scalability and high performance unless otherwise stated below.
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Peer-to-peer file systems[edit]Some of these may be called cooperative storage cloud.
Special-purpose file systems[edit]
Pseudo file systems[edit]
Encrypted file systems[edit]
File system interfaces[edit]These are not really file systems; they allow access to file systems from an operating system standpoint.
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Which file system is supported by Mac and Windows and Linux?Originally Answered: What file system can cross Windows, Linux, and Mac but not FAT? There is no file system other than FAT that reliably works in all three OSes unless you can install plugins.
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Which file system is supported by Mac and Windows?Apple File System (APFS): The file system used by macOS 10.13 or later. Mac OS Extended: The file system used by macOS 10.12 or earlier. MS-DOS (FAT) and ExFAT: File systems that are compatible with Windows.
Which file systems are used by Linux and Windows operating systems?Windows uses FAT and NTFS as file systems, while Linux uses a variety of file systems. Unlike Windows, Linux is bootable from a network drive. In contrast to Windows, everything is either a file or a process in Linux. Linux has two kinds of major partitions called data partitions and swap partitions.
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