07 Jul 15 22:56, you wrote to me:

 EV>>> Now to look up JFS, Thanks!

 ml>> generally speaking, modern operating systems use IFSes... Installable
 ml>> File Systems... that means that FAT, HPFS, NTFS, JFS and numerous
 ml>> others may be added to a system and used on a drive or partition...

 EV> Thanks for looking that stuff up - or did all of what You wrote just
 EV> came off the top of Your head?

most of it i already knew... some of the stuff below i gathered quickly and
wrote in my own words...

 ml>> FAT is "File Allocation Table" and comes in three flavours that
 EV> -snip-
 ml>> HPFS is "High Performance File System"... it uses B+ Trees to
 EV> -snip-
 ml>> NTFS is "New Technology File System" and is a modified version
 EV> -snip-
 ml>> JFS is "Journaling File System"... the biggest thing is that,

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 EV> All that will take some time for me to read, Thanks for the message.
 EV> I'm sure others here enjoyed Your post too!

not a problem... i hope those links are helpful to you in learning some of
the details about the various file systems and their features...

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