Detailed study and comparison of various file systems
2013
Lovely Professional
University
KRRISH RAJ reg no-11102594
[TERM PAPER ON FILE
SYSTEMS]
Detailed study and comparison of various file systems including FAT,NTFS ,RAID and EXT
SUBMITTED TO :- Mr. AmritPal Singh
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to thank my teacher for assigning me the topic ( Comparison of various File Systems) . I would also like to thank for providing me with the necessary details which were required for the completion of the term paper. I would also like to thank my friends for helping me with this term paper.
I thank you all.
CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
FILE ALLOCATION TABLE o fat o vfat o fat12 o fat16 o fat32 o fdt
NEW TECHONOLOGY FILE SYSTEM o ntfs o hpfs o ntfs 5.0 o mft
REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DISKS o raid o raid 0 o raid 1 o raid 3 o raid 5 o raid 10 o raid 30 and 50
EXTENDED FILE SYSTEM o -ext 2 o -ext 3 o -linux swap
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
File System
Definition: Computers use particular kinds of file systems to store and organize data on media, such as a hard drive, the CDs, DVDs, and BDs in an optical drive or on a flash drive.
Any place that a PC stores data is employing the use of some type of file system.
A file system can be thought of as an index or database containing the physical location of every piece of data on a hard drive.
A file system is setup on a drive during a format.
1) In a computer, a file system (sometimes written filesystem) is the way in which files are named and where they are placed logically for storage and retrieval. The DOS, Windows,
OS/2, Macintosh, and UNIX-based operating systems all have file systems in which files are placed somewhere in a hierarchical (tree) structure. A file is placed in a directory (folder in
Windows) or subdirectory at the desired place in the tree structure.
File systems specify conventions for naming files. These conventions include the maximum number of characters in a name, which characters can
Lovely Professional
University
KRRISH RAJ reg no-11102594
[TERM PAPER ON FILE
SYSTEMS]
Detailed study and comparison of various file systems including FAT,NTFS ,RAID and EXT
SUBMITTED TO :- Mr. AmritPal Singh
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to thank my teacher for assigning me the topic ( Comparison of various File Systems) . I would also like to thank for providing me with the necessary details which were required for the completion of the term paper. I would also like to thank my friends for helping me with this term paper.
I thank you all.
CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
FILE ALLOCATION TABLE o fat o vfat o fat12 o fat16 o fat32 o fdt
NEW TECHONOLOGY FILE SYSTEM o ntfs o hpfs o ntfs 5.0 o mft
REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DISKS o raid o raid 0 o raid 1 o raid 3 o raid 5 o raid 10 o raid 30 and 50
EXTENDED FILE SYSTEM o -ext 2 o -ext 3 o -linux swap
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
File System
Definition: Computers use particular kinds of file systems to store and organize data on media, such as a hard drive, the CDs, DVDs, and BDs in an optical drive or on a flash drive.
Any place that a PC stores data is employing the use of some type of file system.
A file system can be thought of as an index or database containing the physical location of every piece of data on a hard drive.
A file system is setup on a drive during a format.
1) In a computer, a file system (sometimes written filesystem) is the way in which files are named and where they are placed logically for storage and retrieval. The DOS, Windows,
OS/2, Macintosh, and UNIX-based operating systems all have file systems in which files are placed somewhere in a hierarchical (tree) structure. A file is placed in a directory (folder in
Windows) or subdirectory at the desired place in the tree structure.
File systems specify conventions for naming files. These conventions include the maximum number of characters in a name, which characters can
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