Types of File systems

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Type of Filesystem so far..Its a mess ……

File system Creator Year
introduced		 Original operating system
DECtape DEC 1964 PDP-6 Monitor
Level-D DEC 1968 TOPS-10
George 2 ICT (later ICL) 1968 George 2
V6FS Bell Labs 1972 Version 6 Unix
ODS-1 DEC 1972 RSX-11
RT-11 file system DEC 1973 RT-11
DOS (GEC) GEC 1973 Core Operating System
CP/M file system Gary Kildall 1974 CP/M
OS4000 GEC 1977 OS4000
FAT12 Microsoft 1977 Microsoft Disk BASIC
DOS 3.x Apple Computer 1978 Apple DOS
Pascal Apple Computer 1978 Apple Pascal
CBM DOS Commodore 1978 Microsoft BASIC (for CBM PET)
V7FS Bell Labs 1979 Version 7 Unix
ODS-2 DEC 1979 OpenVMS
DFS Acorn Computers Ltd 1982 Acorn BBC Micro MOS
ADFS Acorn Computers Ltd 1983 Acorn Electron (later Arthur RISC OS)
FFS Kirk McKusick 1983 4.2BSD
ProDOS Apple Computer 1983 ProDOS 8
MFS Apple Computer 1984 Mac OS
Elektronika BK tape format NPO “Scientific centre” (now Sitronics) 1985 Vilnius Basic, BK monitor program
HFS Apple Computer 1985 Mac OS
Amiga OFS54 Metacomco for Commodore 1985 Amiga OS
High Sierra Ecma International 1985 MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS
NWFS Novell 1985 NetWare 286
FAT16 Microsoft 1987 MS-DOS 3.31
Minix V1 FS Andrew S. Tanenbaum 1987 Minix 1.0
Amiga FFS Commodore 1988 Amiga OS 1.3
HPFS IBM & Microsoft 1988 OS/2
ISO 9660:1988 Ecma International, Microsoft 1988 MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and AmigaOS
JFS1 IBM 1990 AIX[1]
VxFS VERITAS 1991 SVR4.0
WAFL NetApp 1992 Data ONTAP
AdvFS DEC 1993 [2] Digital Unix
NTFS Version 1.0 Microsoft, Gary Kimura, Tom Miller 1993 Windows NT 3.1
LFS Margo Seltzer 1993 Berkeley Sprite
ext2 Rémy Card 1993 Linux,Hurd
UFS1 Kirk McKusick 1994 4.4BSD
XFS SGI 1994 IRIX,Linux,FreeBSD
HFS IBM 1994 MVS/ESA (now z/OS)
Joliet (“CDFS”) Microsoft 1995 Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD
UDF ISO/ECMA/OSTA 1995 -
FAT32 Microsoft 1996 Windows 95b[3]
QFS LSC Inc, Sun Microsystems 1996 Solaris
GPFS IBM 1996 AIX,Linux,Windows
Be File System Be Inc., D. Giampaolo, C. Meurillon 1996 BeOS
Minix V2 FS Andrew S. Tanenbaum 1997 Minix 2.0
HFS Plus Apple Computer 1998 Mac OS 8.1
NSS Novell 1998 NetWare 5
PolyServe File System (PSFS) PolyServe 1998 Windows, Linux
ODS-5 DEC 1998 OpenVMS 7.2
ext3 Stephen Tweedie 1999 Linux
ISO 9660:1999 Ecma International, Microsoft 1999 Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and AmigaOS
Lustre Sun Microsystems/Cluster File Systems 2002 Linux
JFS IBM 1999 OS/2 Warp Server for e-business
GFS Sistina (Red Hat) 2000 Linux
NTFS Version 5.1 Microsoft 2001 Windows XP
ReiserFS Namesys 2001 Linux
zFS IBM 2001 z/OS (backported to OS/390)
FATX Microsoft 2002 Xbox
UFS2 Kirk McKusick 2002 FreeBSD 5.0
OCFS Oracle Corporation 2002 Linux
VMFS2 VMware 2002 VMware ESX Server 2.0
Fossil Bell Labs 2003 Plan 9 from Bell Labs 4
Google File System Google 2003 Linux
ZFS Sun Microsystems 2004 Solaris
Reiser4 Namesys 2004 Linux
Non-Volatile File System Palm, Inc. 2004 Palm OS Garnet
Minix V3 FS Andrew S. Tanenbaum 2005 MINIX 3
OCFS2 Oracle Corporation 2005 Linux
NILFS NTT 2005 Linux, NetBSD
VMFS3 VMware 2005 VMware ESX Server 3.0
GFS2 Red Hat 2006 Linux
ext4 various 2006 Linux
exFAT Microsoft 2006,2009 Windows CE 6.0, Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1
TexFAT/TFAT Microsoft 2006 Windows CE 6.0
NTFS Version 6.0 Microsoft 2006 Windows Vista
Btrfs Oracle Corporation 2007 Linux
HAMMER Matthew Dillon 2008 Dragonfly BSD
WBFS Nintendo 2009 Wii, Wii Linux, Windows using WBFS Manager

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