A Taxonomy and Survey on Different File Systems
Hemil Patel
, Shibin Sunny, Ankit Gajera, Prof. Gopi Bhatt
Computer Engineering Department, A. D. Patel Institute of Technology New Vallabh Vidhyanagar, Vitthal Udyognagar, Anand, Gujarat-388121, India, India
Computer Engineering Department, A. D. Patel Institute of Technology New Vallabh Vidhyanagar, Vitthal Udyognagar, Anand, Gujarat-388121, India, India
Vol. 4, Issue 4 pp. 362-367 🌐 Open Access
ABSTRACT
When taking computation into consideration, storing and retrieval of data is controlled by file system. If the computing system lacks proper file system, stored information would just be a large piece of data. Without it, there would not be any way to tell where one piece of information ends and where is the beginning of the next piece. The structure and logic rules used to manage the groups of information and their names is called a "file system" [1]. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive taxonomy for describing various file systems and use this taxonomy to survey several existing file systems. We use the taxonomy and the survey results to identify which file system is appropriate to use according to the requirements of an individual.
Keywords:
File System, Disk File System, Network File System, Cluster File System, Distributed File System, Parallel File System
