The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective From the archives: In the '90s, OS geeks adored BFS's ahead-of-its-time feature set.

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

On the other side of the utility spectrum are operating systems designed by smaller developer teams. Haiku OS and SerenityOS ...

If needed, Apple's TextEdit program can be used to modify hidden system files.

With Apple's licensing of Microsoft's exFAT file system, it seems like we finally have a good option for OS X and Windows disk swapping. Dave Girard spent some time investigating the appeal, the ...

Certain file systems are optimized to work better with different operating systems, which is why the file system and operating system are very closely intertwined.

This allows for one or more file systems to operate in conjunction with the OS. I/O management in embedded OSs provides an additional abstraction layer (to higher-level software) away from the ...

Windows includes Compact OS. Using compact.exe you can reduce the size of the operating system & run it from compressed files, similar to WIMBoot.