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Describe FileSystems here.

A filesystem is a way to organize the files on a disk.  Back in the dark ages, programs simply used the disk. You'd tell the program "start on cylinder 7, and you can use from there to cylinder 23", and it would handle all of the business of keeping track of its data itself.

Oddly enough, most major databases still prefer to do this.

However, this way of looking at data is neither pleasant nor useful to humans.  We'd rather group things together and give 'em names.  And this is easy enough to do, and it worked quite well - and thus we have the concept of a ''filesystem''.

[Describe FAT]

[Describe the standard *nix inode/block filesystem]

[Refer to other filesystems]


Interesting Links:

  * http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~cs4513/b01/week2-unixfs/week2-unixfs.html