Operating System: Kernel: Files & Files System

 Files & Files System

    On our computers, we can easily store hundreds of files, if not more. But, we have to be able to keep track of all these files. Well, the kernel handles file storage and files systems on our machines.

    We have, on our operating system, three main components to handle files: file data, metadata, & file system.

File system: when we have a brand new hard disk that we want to store data on, we need to erase and configure disk. By this way, our operating system can read and write data to it.

Recommended files systems:

• The major file system that used on WINDOWS is: NTFS
• MICROSOFT is developing another file system called: ReFs
• MAC operating system, its default file system is: HFS+
• For LINUX, it depends on its distribution, but a standard file system for linux is ext4 

    In the next article we will talk about process management in the kernel!

 

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