File Systems as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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1,123 words · ~5 min read
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you probably know someone that's always misplacing stuff I do personally whether
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they can't find their keys in the morning they leave their clothes everywhere like my sweaters they don't
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even know where that stack of $100 bills is that they want to the casino okay
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honestly I've never done that but anyways could you imagine if your computer was that forgetful and never
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remembered where you put stuff like save games important papers or tax documents
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or your operating system fortunately all
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computers use some kind of file system so it can keep track of of where all
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your stuff is just like how you might use a closet space or cabinets at home
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to keep your collection of random clothes and kitchen items from being a
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complete mess so how do they do that well there are many different types of
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systems out there but what they all have in common is that they divide up your
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hard drive SSD or flash drive into small
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units that store data and have some kind
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of way of remembering what data is in each unit so it can go and find it later
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on to better understand how this works and to figure out what system to use for
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your own stuff let's have a look at some common file system starting off with
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file allocation table or fat and although its name is incredibly
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unflattering fat was used by the vast majority of Home Windows-based PCS until
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XP came out fat worked by splitting the disc into a bunch of clusters giving
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each cluster a unique ID number then using a table to track what part of what
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was stored in each cluster all right right pretty straightforward and simple
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no big deal there but as hard drives became larger and larger fat ran into
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some problems namely it resulted in a lot of wasted space because it often
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couldn't fill clusters completely a problem called slack and could only
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support drives that were kind of smaller due to the way that fat stored
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information about file locations fat 32 which came to prominence with Windows 98
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was an improvement but still couldn't deal with partitions larger than 2 tabt
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which isn't that big these days to overcome these limitations every version
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of Windows since XP and NT 3.1 on the
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business side of things has used the only slightly less awkwardly named new
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technology file system or NTFS NTFS uses
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Some Space Management tricks to make it use space much more efficiently than fat
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resulting in better Real World capacity in many cases and can support massive
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partitions of hundreds of terabytes as well as huge individual 's file sizes
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important in the age of 4K videos that can span multiple hours making them
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massive it also has features to help prevent data loss in the event of a
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crash native file compression and security features including native file
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encryption support to keep out unauthorized users these features have
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made NTFS an almost Universal choice for Windows-based PCs these days but just
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like it's hard to get rid of those last 10 lbs of fat at the gym fat the file
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system hasn't completely gone away fat 32 is still commonly used on USB flash
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drives to maintain compatibility with older versions of Windows as well as
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operating systems such as Linux and speaking of flash drives there's a new
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version of fat called X fat which is surprisingly not the name of a line of
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diet supplements X fat was designed specifically with high-capacity flash
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drives and memory cards in mind and support much larger capacities and file
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sizes than older versions of fat while not including features of NTFS that
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flash drives don't really need in order to keep things running quickly X fat
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isn't always compatible with some quite a bit older versions of Windows though
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so keep that in mind when choosing what you're going to use for your flash drive
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if you for some reason are still using like unpatched versions of XP the good
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thing though is that it's pretty easy to switch file systems on your flash drive
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by just doing a quick reformat after you've saved your file somewhere else of
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of course I don't want to be responsible for that but no matter what you choose
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you can bet that your drives will keep track of your data better than your
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