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This presentation summarizes file systems and how computers store files on disks. It discusses what files and file systems are, the evolution of file systems from MULTICS in 1965, commonly used file systems like FAT, NTFS, and ReFS. It provides details on the file structure and limitations of FAT, NTFS, and ReFS file systems and compares their features. The presentation was submitted by Prachi Mathpal, a second year CSE student, to their department professors.

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Presentation On File System

This presentation summarizes file systems and how computers store files on disks. It discusses what files and file systems are, the evolution of file systems from MULTICS in 1965, commonly used file systems like FAT, NTFS, and ReFS. It provides details on the file structure and limitations of FAT, NTFS, and ReFS file systems and compares their features. The presentation was submitted by Prachi Mathpal, a second year CSE student, to their department professors.

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Presentation on

File System
Way computers store file on disk

Submitted to:
Ms. Shivani
Mr. Achint
C.S.E Department

Submitted by:
Prachi Mathpal
R.No: 120240101037
C.S.E 2nd year

Overview
What is a file?
what is a file system and its needs?
Evolution of file system.
Commonly used file system.
Comparision between the latest file system.
Limitations.

File
File is a collection of related information that

is recorded on secondary storage.


A file is a container for storing information.
Every file has a title called filename.
For example : mp3 files, html files, doc files
etc.

File system
File system is used to control how data is

stored and retrieved.


File system is a logical collection of files on a
partition or a disk.
Interface between applications and the mass
storage/devices.
Provide abstraction for the mass storage and
IO devices.

Evolution of file system


MULTICS introduced the first file system in

1965.
Earlier, each computer was built to run a
single application.
With advent of file system, applications do not
deal with storage medium.
They write blocks of data to the disk.

Commonly used file system


FAT 16
FAT 32
NTFS
ReFS

FAT(file allocation table)


Developed by Microsoft in 1977.
There are 3 versions of it till date.
Maximum file size: 4 GB.
Maximum number of files : FAT12 - 4,068 for 8kb clusters.

FAT16 - 65,460 for 32kb clusters.


FAT32 - 268,173,300 for 32kb clusters.
Maximum volume size: 32 MB for FAT12
2 GB for FAT16
2 TB for FAT32

Maximum volume:

FAT File Structure.

NTFS
It is a new technology file system
Introduced in July 1993(Windows NT 3.1) by

Microsoft.
Maximum file size : 16 TB-64 KB(windows 7)
256 TB64 KB (Windows 8)
Maximum number of files: 4,294,967,295 .
Maximum volume size: 256tb64kb(implementation).
There are 5 versions of NTFS till date.

Architecture of NTFS

ReFS(RESILIENCE FILE
SYSTEM)
Originally started out as Monolithic NTFS and

ended up as ReFS.
It is codenamed as Protogon, introduced with
windows server 2012.
It improves on NTFS while it also removes
number of features.
Features:
Improved reliability for on-disk structures.
Compatibility with existing APIs and
technologies.

ReFS File Structure

Comparision between different file


FAT16
FAT32
NTFS
systems
Introduced with ms-dos Originally introduced in Introduced for windows
in 1981.

windows 95.

NT.

Its possible to make a It can be used to create NTFS partition can be


fat16 partition upto 4GB much larger partitions. made upto 16 TB.
in size.
Advantage :
It is compatible across
a wide variety of
operating systems

Advantage:
Advantage:
It has native support for It provides for greatly
long filenames.
increased security

Weak error recovery


and no built in file
security.

No security for data.

Much secure and


robust.

Limitations of file system


Migrating to a different file system.
In place conversion.
Long file paths and long file names.
Converting the type of the file system.

Any questions?

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