The Mac HFS was the first file system to extensively use file attributes in support of GUIs. Consider that a windowed OS needs to persist and manage many GUI attributes such as frame size ...

ReFS has an architecture designed to work ... and try to format the drive using this file system. If it is a standard default installation, the OS uses the NTFS structures. With a failed Windows ...

These don't matter as much as they used to, but OS X's HFS+ file system supports a pretty rich amount of metadata, and AFP transports and preserves that metadata. But AFP isn't particularly ...

PanFS was the first storage system designed with the parallel file system architecture that is the de facto dominant storage architecture in HPC systems to this day. While the foundation for PanFS was ...

The new Apple File System (APFS) will replace Apple's old HFS+ file system, used on all Macs since 1998 which in turn was based on the archaic HFS, introduced in 1985.