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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">NWFS</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_developer" class="mw-redirect" title="Software developer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Full name</th><td class="infobox-data">NetWare File System</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Partition_type" title="Partition type">Partition IDs</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Partition_type#PID_64h" title="Partition type">0x64</a> (<a href="NWFS_286" class="mw-redirect" title="NWFS 286">NWFS 286</a>),<br> <a href="Partition_type#PID_65h" title="Partition type">0x65</a> (<a href="NWFS_386" class="mw-redirect" title="NWFS 386">NWFS 386</a>),<br> <a href="Partition_type#PID_66h" title="Partition type">0x66</a> (<a href="NWFS_386" class="mw-redirect" title="NWFS 386">NWFS 386</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Limits</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Max volume size</th><td class="infobox-data">1 <a href="Terabyte" class="mw-redirect" title="Terabyte">TB</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Max file size</th><td class="infobox-data">4 <a href="Gigabyte" title="Gigabyte">GB</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Features</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Transparent<br>compression</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Other</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Supported<br><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Novell_NetWare" class="mw-redirect" title="Novell NetWare">Novell NetWare</a>, <a href="MSDOS" class="mw-redirect" title="MSDOS">MSDOS</a>, <a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, and <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>In <a href="Computing" title="Computing">computing</a>, the <b>NetWare File System</b> (<b>NWFS</b>) was a <a href="File_system" title="File system">file system</a> based on a heavily optimized, journal-based <a href="File_Allocation_Table" title="File Allocation Table">FAT</a> file system. It was used in the <a href="Novell_NetWare" class="mw-redirect" title="Novell NetWare">Novell NetWare</a> <a href="Network_operating_system" title="Network operating system">network operating system</a>. It was the only file system for all volumes in NetWare versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.x, and the default and only file system for the SYS: volume continuing through version 5.x. Novell developed two varieties of NWFS:
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<ol><li>16-bit NWFS 286, used in NetWare 2.x</li>
<li>32-bit NWFS 386, used in NetWare 3.x through NetWare 6.x.</li></ol>
<p>In NetWare 5 and above, <a href="Novell_Storage_Services" title="Novell Storage Services">Novell Storage Services</a> (NSS, released in 1998), superseded the NWFS format.
</p><p>The NWFS on-disk format was never publicly released by Novell, but it was released by former Novell engineers as an open source project on Windows, Linux, and DOS in 2000. The project contains a complete rewrite of the NetWare File System, publishes all of the file system internals, and is hosted on <a href="GitHub" title="GitHub">GitHub</a> and <a href="GitLab" title="GitLab">GitLab</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GitLab_2024_u925_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GitLab_2024_u925-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GitHub_2019_m762_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GitHub_2019_m762-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The published specifications<sup id="cite_ref-GitLab_2024_u925_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GitLab_2024_u925-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for 32-bit NWFS are:
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<ul><li>Maximum file size: 4 <a href="Gigabyte" title="Gigabyte">GB</a></li>
<li>Maximum volume size: 1 <a href="Terabyte" class="mw-redirect" title="Terabyte">TB</a></li>
<li>Maximum files per volume: 2 million when using a single name space.</li>
<li>Maximum files per server: 16 million</li>
<li>Maximum directory entries: 16 million</li>
<li>Maximum volumes per server: 64</li>
<li>Maximum volumes per partition: 8</li>
<li>Maximum open files per server: 100,000</li>
<li>Maximum directory tree depth: 100 levels</li>
<li>Characters used: ASCII double-byte</li>
<li>Maximum <a href="Metadata_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Metadata (computing)">extended attributes</a>: 512</li>
<li>Maximum <a href="Fork_(filesystem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fork (filesystem)">data streams</a>: 10</li>
<li>Support for different name spaces: <a href="Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> <a href="Long_filename" title="Long filename">Long names</a> (a.k.a. <a href="OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a> namespace), <a href="Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>, <a href="Apple_Macintosh" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple Macintosh">Apple Macintosh</a></li>
<li>Support for restoring deleted files (salvage)</li>
<li>Support for journaling (Novell <i>Transaction Tracking System</i> a.k.a. <i>TTS</i>)</li>
<li>Support for block suballocation, starting in NetWare 4.x</li></ul>
<p>For larger files, the file system utilized a performance feature named <i>Turbo FAT</i>.
</p><p>Transparent file compression was also supported, although this had a significant impact on the performance of file serving.
</p><p>Every name space requires its own separate directory entry for each file. While the maximum number of directory entries is 16,000,000, two resident name spaces would reduce the usable maximum number of directory entries to 8,000,000, and three to 5,333,333.
</p><p>16-bit NWFS could handle volumes of up to 256 <a href="Megabyte" title="Megabyte">MB</a>. However, its only name-space support was a dedicated <a href="Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">API</a> to handle Macintosh clients.
</p><p>The Netware File System supported native <a href="Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_0" title="Standard RAID levels">RAID 0</a> and <a href="Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_1" title="Standard RAID levels">RAID 1</a> capabilities long before RAID systems came into use on personal computers. Disk mirroring and duplexing were basic features of the file system, and NWFS also supported multi-segmented volumes, and round-robin reads, much like RAID 0 and RAID 1 does today.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="List_of_file_systems" title="List of file systems">List of file systems</a></li>
<li><a href="Comparison_of_file_systems" title="Comparison of file systems">Comparison of file systems</a></li>
<li><a href="Transaction-Safe_FAT_File_System" title="Transaction-Safe FAT File System">Transaction-Safe FAT File System</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.novell.com/de-de/documentation/nw6p/?sos__enu/data/h0wbzsqh.html">Using the Transaction Tracking System</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Comparison_of_file_systems" title="Comparison of file systems">Comparison of file systems</a>
<ul><li><a href="Comparison_of_distributed_file_systems" title="Comparison of distributed file systems">distributed</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Unix_filesystem" title="Unix filesystem">Unix filesystem</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Disk and<br>non-rotating</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Advanced_Disc_Filing_System" title="Advanced Disc Filing System">ADFS</a></li>
<li><a href="AdvFS" title="AdvFS">AdvFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Amiga_Fast_File_System" title="Amiga Fast File System">Amiga FFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Amiga_Old_File_System" title="Amiga Old File System">Amiga OFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Apple_File_System" title="Apple File System">APFS</a></li>
<li><a href="AtheOS_File_System" class="mw-redirect" title="AtheOS File System">AthFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Bcachefs" title="Bcachefs">bcachefs</a></li>
<li>BFS
<ul><li><a href="Be_File_System" title="Be File System">Be File System</a></li>
<li><a href="Boot_File_System" title="Boot File System">Boot File System</a></li>
<li>Byte File System (<a href="Z/VM" title="Z/VM">z/VM</a>)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Btrfs" title="Btrfs">Btrfs</a></li>
<li><a href="StorNext_File_System" title="StorNext File System">CVFS</a></li>
<li><a href="CXFS" title="CXFS">CXFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Disc_Filing_System" title="Disc Filing System">DFS</a></li>
<li>EFS
<ul><li><a href="Encrypting_File_System" title="Encrypting File System">Encrypting File System</a></li>
<li><a href="Extent_File_System" title="Extent File System">Extent File System</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Episode_filesystem" title="Episode filesystem">Episode</a></li>
<li><a href="Extended_file_system" title="Extended file system">ext</a>
<ul><li><a href="Ext2" title="Ext2">ext2</a></li>
<li><a href="Ext3" title="Ext3">ext3</a></li>
<li><a href="Ext3cow" title="Ext3cow">ext3cow</a></li>
<li><a href="Ext4" title="Ext4">ext4</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="File_Allocation_Table" title="File Allocation Table">FAT</a>
<ul><li><a href="ExFAT" title="ExFAT">exFAT</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Files-11" title="Files-11">Files-11</a></li>
<li><a href="Fossil_(file_system)" title="Fossil (file system)">Fossil</a></li>
<li><a href="GPFS" title="GPFS">GPFS</a></li>
<li><a href="HAMMER_(file_system)" title="HAMMER (file system)">HAMMER</a>
<ul><li><a href="HAMMER2" title="HAMMER2">HAMMER2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Hierarchical_File_System_(Apple)" title="Hierarchical File System (Apple)">HFS</a> (<a href="Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">Classic Mac OS</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Hierarchical_File_System_(IBM_MVS)" title="Hierarchical File System (IBM MVS)">HFS</a> (<a href="MVS" title="MVS">MVS</a>)</li>
<li><a href="HFS_Plus" title="HFS Plus">HFS+</a></li>
<li><a href="High_Performance_File_System" title="High Performance File System">HPFS</a></li>
<li><a href="High_Throughput_File_System" title="High Throughput File System">HTFS</a></li>
<li><a href="JFS_(file_system)" title="JFS (file system)">JFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Log-structured_File_System_(BSD)" title="Log-structured File System (BSD)">LFS</a></li>
<li>MFS
<ul><li><a href="Macintosh_File_System" title="Macintosh File System">Macintosh File System</a></li>
<li><a href="TiVo_Media_File_System" title="TiVo Media File System">TiVo Media File System</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="MINIX_file_system" title="MINIX file system">MINIX</a></li>

<li><a href="Next3" title="Next3">Next3</a></li>
<li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS</a>
<ul><li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Novell_Storage_Services" title="Novell Storage Services">NSS</a></li>
<li><a href="NTFS" title="NTFS">NTFS</a></li>
<li><a href="OneFS_distributed_file_system" title="OneFS distributed file system">OneFS</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenZFS" title="OpenZFS">OpenZFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Professional_File_System" title="Professional File System">PFS</a></li>
<li><a href="QFS" title="QFS">QFS</a></li>
<li><a href="QNX4FS" title="QNX4FS">QNX4FS</a></li>
<li><a href="ReFS" title="ReFS">ReFS</a></li>
<li><a href="ReiserFS" title="ReiserFS">ReiserFS</a>
<ul><li><a href="Reiser4" title="Reiser4">Reiser4</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Datalight#Reliance_family" title="Datalight">Reliance</a></li>
<li><a href="Datalight#Reliance_Nitro" title="Datalight">Reliance Nitro</a></li>
<li><a href="Remote_File_Sharing" title="Remote File Sharing">RFS</a></li>
<li>SFS
<ul><li>Shared File System (<a href="VM_(operating_system)" title="VM (operating system)">VM</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Smart_File_System" title="Smart File System">Smart File System</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="StorNext_File_System" title="StorNext File System">SNFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Soup_(Apple)" title="Soup (Apple)">Soup (Apple)</a></li>
<li><a href="Tux3" title="Tux3">Tux3</a></li>
<li><a href="UBIFS" title="UBIFS">UBIFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Unix_File_System" title="Unix File System">UFS/UFS2</a>
<ul><li><a href="Soft_updates" title="Soft updates">soft updates</a></li>
<li><a href="Write_Ahead_Physical_Block_Logging" title="Write Ahead Physical Block Logging">WAPBL</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Veritas_File_System" title="Veritas File System">VxFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Write_Anywhere_File_Layout" title="Write Anywhere File Layout">WAFL</a></li>
<li><a href="Xiafs" title="Xiafs">Xiafs</a></li>
<li><a href="XFS" title="XFS">XFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Xsan" title="Xsan">Xsan</a></li>
<li><a href="ZFS_(z/OS_file_system)" title="ZFS (z/OS file system)">zFS</a> (<a href="Z/OS" title="Z/OS">z/OS</a>)</li>
<li><a href="ZFS" title="ZFS">ZFS</a> (<a href="Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun</a>)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">Optical disc</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="High_Sierra_Format" class="mw-redirect" title="High Sierra Format">HSF</a></li>
<li><a href="ISO_9660" title="ISO 9660">ISO 9660</a></li>
<li><a href="ISO_13490" title="ISO 13490">ISO 13490</a></li>
<li><a href="Universal_Disk_Format" title="Universal Disk Format">UDF</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">Flash memory</a> and <a href="Solid-state_drive" title="Solid-state drive">SSD</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Apple_File_System" title="Apple File System">APFS</a></li>
<li><a href="File_Allocation_Table" title="File Allocation Table">FAT</a></li>
<li><a href="ExFAT" title="ExFAT">exFAT</a></li>
<li><a href="Transaction-Safe_FAT_File_System" title="Transaction-Safe FAT File System">TFAT</a></li>
<li><a href="EROFS" title="EROFS">EROFS</a></li>
<li><a href="F2FS" title="F2FS">F2FS</a></li>
<li><a href="JFS_(file_system)" title="JFS (file system)">JFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Non-Volatile_File_System" title="Non-Volatile File System">NVFS</a></li></ul>
</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="host-side_wear_leveling27" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">host-side <a href="Wear_leveling" title="Wear leveling">wear leveling</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="CHFS" title="CHFS">CHFS</a></li>
<li><a href="JFFS" title="JFFS">JFFS</a></li>
<li><a href="JFFS2" title="JFFS2">JFFS2</a></li>
<li><a href="LogFS" title="LogFS">LogFS</a></li>
<li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS</a>
<ul><li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="YAFFS" title="YAFFS">YAFFS</a></li>
<li><a href="UBIFS" title="UBIFS">UBIFS</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Clustered_file_system#Distributed_file_systems" title="Clustered file system">Distributed parallel</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="BeeGFS" title="BeeGFS">BeeGFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Ceph_(software)" title="Ceph (software)">Ceph</a></li>
<li><a href="CXFS" title="CXFS">CXFS</a></li>
<li><a href="GFS2" title="GFS2">GFS2</a></li>
<li><a href="Google_File_System" title="Google File System">Google File System</a></li>
<li><a href="OCFS2" title="OCFS2">OCFS2</a></li>
<li><a href="OrangeFS" title="OrangeFS">OrangeFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallel_Virtual_File_System" title="Parallel Virtual File System">PVFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Quantcast_File_System" title="Quantcast File System">QFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Xsan" title="Xsan">Xsan</a></li>
<li><i><a href="List_of_file_systems#Distributed_parallel_file_systems" title="List of file systems">more...</a></i></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Network-attached_storage" title="Network-attached storage">NAS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="9P_(protocol)" title="9P (protocol)">9P</a></li>
<li><a href="Andrew_File_System" title="Andrew File System">AFS</a> (<a href="OpenAFS" title="OpenAFS">OpenAFS</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Apple_Filing_Protocol" title="Apple Filing Protocol">AFP</a></li>
<li><a href="Coda_(file_system)" title="Coda (file system)">Coda</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_File_System_(Microsoft)" title="Distributed File System (Microsoft)">DFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Google_File_System" title="Google File System">Google File System</a></li>
<li><a href="GPFS" title="GPFS">GPFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Lustre_(file_system)" title="Lustre (file system)">Lustre</a></li>
<li><a href="NetWare_Core_Protocol" title="NetWare Core Protocol">NCP</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_File_System" title="Network File System">NFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Elliptics" title="Elliptics">POHMELFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Apache_Hadoop" title="Apache Hadoop">Hadoop</a></li>
<li><a href="Server_Message_Block" title="Server Message Block">SMB (CIFS)</a></li>
<li><a href="SSHFS" title="SSHFS">SSHFS</a></li>
<li><i><a href="List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems" title="List of file systems">more...</a></i></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specialized</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Aufs" title="Aufs">Aufs</a></li>
<li><a href="AXFS" title="AXFS">AXFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Boot_File_System" title="Boot File System">Boot File System</a></li>
<li><a href="Compact_Disc_File_System" title="Compact Disc File System">Compact Disc File System</a></li>
<li><a href="Cramfs" title="Cramfs">cramfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Davfs2" title="Davfs2">Davfs2</a></li>
<li><a href="EROFS" title="EROFS">EROFS</a></li>
<li><a href="FTPFS" title="FTPFS">FTPFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Filesystem_in_Userspace" title="Filesystem in Userspace">FUSE</a></li>
<li><a href="Lnfs" title="Lnfs">Lnfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Linear_Tape_File_System" title="Linear Tape File System">LTFS</a></li>
<li><a href="NOVA_(filesystem)" title="NOVA (filesystem)">NOVA</a></li>
<li><a href="Rational_MultiVersion_File_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Rational MultiVersion File System">MVFS</a></li>
<li><a href="SquashFS" title="SquashFS">SquashFS</a></li>
<li><a href="FAT_filesystem_and_Linux" title="FAT filesystem and Linux">UMSDOS</a></li>
<li><a href="OverlayFS" title="OverlayFS">OverlayFS</a></li>
<li><a href="UnionFS" title="UnionFS">UnionFS</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pseudo</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Configfs" title="Configfs">configfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Device_file" title="Device file">devfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Debugfs" title="Debugfs">debugfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Kernfs_(BSD)" title="Kernfs (BSD)">kernfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Procfs" title="Procfs">procfs</a></li>
<li>specfs</li>
<li><a href="Sysfs" title="Sysfs">sysfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Tmpfs" title="Tmpfs">tmpfs</a></li>
<li><a href="WinFS" title="WinFS">WinFS</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Encrypted</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="ECryptfs" title="ECryptfs">eCryptfs</a></li>
<li><a href="EncFS" title="EncFS">EncFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Encrypting_File_System" title="Encrypting File System">EFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Rubberhose_(file_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubberhose (file system)">Rubberhose</a></li>
<li><a href="SSHFS" title="SSHFS">SSHFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Oracle_ZFS" title="Oracle ZFS">ZFS</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Clustered_file_system" title="Clustered file system">Clustered</a>
<ul><li><a href="Global_file_system" title="Global file system">Global</a></li>
<li><a href="Grid_file_system" title="Grid file system">Grid</a></li>
<li><a href="Self-certifying_File_System" title="Self-certifying File System">Self-certifying</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Flash_file_system" title="Flash file system">Flash</a></li>
<li><a href="Journaling_file_system" title="Journaling file system">Journaling</a></li>
<li><a href="Log-structured_file_system" title="Log-structured file system">Log-structured</a></li>
<li><a href="Object_storage" title="Object storage">Object</a></li>
<li><a href="Record-oriented_filesystem" title="Record-oriented filesystem">Record-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Semantic_file_system" title="Semantic file system">Semantic</a></li>
<li><a href="Steganographic_file_system" title="Steganographic file system">Steganographic</a></li>
<li><a href="Synthetic_file_system" title="Synthetic file system">Synthetic</a></li>
<li><a href="Versioning_file_system" title="Versioning file system">Versioning</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Features</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Case_preservation" title="Case preservation">Case preservation</a></li>
<li><a href="Copy-on-write" title="Copy-on-write">Copy-on-write</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_deduplication" title="Data deduplication">Data deduplication</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_scrubbing" title="Data scrubbing">Data scrubbing</a></li>
<li><a href="Execute_in_place" title="Execute in place">Execute in place</a></li>
<li><a href="Extent_(file_systems)" title="Extent (file systems)">Extent</a></li>
<li><a href="File_attribute" title="File attribute">File attribute</a>
<ul><li><a href="Extended_file_attributes" title="Extended file attributes">Extended file attributes</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="File_change_log" title="File change log">File change log</a></li>
<li><a href="Fork_(file_system)" title="Fork (file system)">Fork</a></li>
<li><a href="Inode" title="Inode">Inode</a></li>
<li>Links
<ul><li><a href="Hard_link" title="Hard link">Hard</a></li>
<li><a href="Symbolic_link" title="Symbolic link">Symbolic</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_access_control" title="Computer access control">Access control</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Access-control_list" title="Access-control list">Access-control list</a></li>
<li><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Filesystem-level encryption</a></li>
<li><a href="File-system_permissions" title="File-system permissions">Permissions</a>
<ul><li><a href="Chmod" title="Chmod">Modes</a></li>
<li><a href="Sticky_bit" title="Sticky bit">Sticky bit</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Interface_(computing)" title="Interface (computing)">Interfaces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="File_manager" title="File manager">File manager</a></li>
<li><a href="File_system_API" title="File system API">File system API</a>
<ul><li><a href="Installable_File_System" title="Installable File System">Installable File System</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_file_system" title="Virtual file system">Virtual file system</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_file_systems" title="List of file systems">Lists</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="List_of_cryptographic_file_systems" title="List of cryptographic file systems">Cryptographic</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_default_file_systems" title="List of default file systems">Default</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_log-structured_file_systems" title="List of log-structured file systems">Log-structured</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Layouts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Master_Boot_Record" class="mw-redirect" title="Master Boot Record">Master Boot Record</a></li>
<li><a href="GUID_Partition_Table" title="GUID Partition Table">GUID Partition Table</a></li>
<li><a href="Apple_Partition_Map" title="Apple Partition Map">Apple Partition Map</a></li></ul>
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