Additional note on file system robustness and reliability. Based on years in I.T., the last job was ten years in a shop that uses hundreds of Macs for workstations. FAT and FAT variants are fairly reliable, but will occasionally corrupt a file. Recovery is generally possible and file system repair usually possible. NTFS is robust and reliable, but when it breaks, it breaks hard and recovery/repair is about a 50/50 possibility. EXT4 is very robust and almost never corrupts a file. Repair and recovery in those rare cases is almost always successful. ZFS is solid. I've never run into problems with it. HFS+ is the worst file system ever created. It regularly corrupts files and recovery is rarely successful. 80% of the problems I fixed on mac workstations involved using a 3rd party utility to repair the file system. APFS came out just after I left the last job, so I have no direct experience with it and can't offer any opinion.

@gottagowork

5 жыл бұрын

I would say with FAT32 you're eventually guaranteed corrupted files, merged files, indexes that cannot be read etc. Only use it for use with devices that can only read FAT32, and keep it's contents backed up **when** you need to restore it.

@gokul6041

5 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for the notes....

@szponiasty

5 жыл бұрын

ext4 has also awesome functions, like space preallocation: when you write a large file on an ext4, the continous space is preallocated, so the file is writeen on a hard drive continously. This is very important if you're using old magnetic HDDs not SSDs, where drive head normally would have to jump all over the plates to access one file. With ext4 you maximise HDDs performance, specially for very large files eg. while editing videos, or playing huge games.

@builder396

5 жыл бұрын

@@gottagowork Id still say its perfectly valid for flash drives and such that generally store data with only rarely if ever having any read/write activity, especially the latter, since youre pretty unlikely to corrupt stuff thats not in use.

@builder396

5 жыл бұрын

Bit off topic here I guess, but what do you do if an NTFS system drive fails? The drive in question is long gone and died a long, painful death with many nuisances like long delays when trying to read files (like solid 10 second freezes), corrupted files all over the place, frequent CHKDSK runs on startup, consistent clicking noises etc. Is there any file system that has a better chance at handling failures like that?

I'm a big fan of the aesthetic on this channel. It reminds me of watching the discovery channel when I was a kid

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

:)

@nro6739

3 жыл бұрын

I love his videos. They’re so informative and i feel like he has so much experience to speak from; it makes it seem like he was sent from the future to teach about electronics. Music makes it even better

@massinakmin8340

3 жыл бұрын

I miss the old discovery channel. Now it is all about real life tv. People selling trash and pretend it is real and not acting.

@xerxes2083

3 жыл бұрын

@Milton Keenes native exfat support is still pretty young in ubuntu, it came in 20.04

@aer0449

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah your right ❤️

This is a very good internet video 👍

@user-yw8sr3uj1w

3 жыл бұрын

Unlike yours ThioJoe

@HeenaPatel253

3 жыл бұрын

OMG I WATCH YOU HELLO

@charlesjsescoto

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-yw8sr3uj1w lol

@alwinvillero4404

3 жыл бұрын

veRy Godo inTer NT viOed !!11!1!

@stackza8740

3 жыл бұрын

Hello ThioJoe!

"16 Exabytes, or effectively unlimited" This is the updated line from the original "640K ought to be enough for anyone". Excellent video Chris. Thanks a ton!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Cool.

@MikeAnn193

2 жыл бұрын

I remember such a limit on _RAM,_ but had forgotten the file size limit. I was only the second person I knew to buy a PC, which I wanted for simple word processing and databases. So for a few years it _was_ enough (pre-Windows and pre-Worldwide Web). 😏 But I knew it _wasn't_ enough for the audio/video uses I dreamed of. It's just that in the late 80s, the beefiest hardware I could _afford_ was a $5,000 machine -- from a company that had just changed its name from PCs Limited to _Dell._ DOS tricks allowed me to take advantage of the "extended" and "expanded" memory (remember those workarounds?). After all, I had a whopping _Megabyte_ of the stuff. 😃 The machine also had a "386" processor and a monstrous 90 _Megabyte_ hard drive, too. 😮 Now I have countless individual _files_ larger than that. 😄Truly amazing how far the technology has advanced.

@johnphilippatos

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikeAnn193 Haha, yeah, I remember those times. First computer I ever bought was a pretty decent Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2. Programming in Basic and stuff. Hell, I had a whole 128 KB of Ram available. I could look those Commodore 64 users straight in the eye. Good times

@MikeAnn193

2 жыл бұрын

​@@johnphilippatos 😀128 KB, wow. Few people I've told my story to have been able to outdo me, but you managed! The brand name Sinclair sounds familiar, but I remember nothing about them. A friend of mine -- the _first_ computer owner I alluded to -- had one that used _cassette tapes_ as the storage medium. That's about the only detail I recall, but he probably also had to program in BASIC. I seem to recall he even had to load the operating system from the cassette each time, which probably took at least a few minutes. Do you still have your Sinclair? I wouldn't have the heart to get rid of my Dell, even if it didn't hold some treasured files.

@johnphilippatos

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikeAnn193 Well, almost everything you mention are quite accurate about Sinclair. Sir Clive Sinclair was a pioneer in the field, who was the first to introduce a low budget home computer in the UK market, the ZX80, at the dawn of the 80's. He achieved further acclaim by introducing the Sinclair ZX Spectrum series computers and his final act was ZX Spectrum+ 128K. He sold his company to Alan Michael Sugar TRADemarks, known as AMSTRAD and their first model on the series was the updated ZX Spectrum+ 128K, called Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2. It featured a quite normal keyboard compared to the original Sinclair's crappy one and it had an analog tape (cassette) recorder embedded in the case. Everything was stored there, any program took forever to upload in the memory, and you would see the "Tape Loading Error" message in the end, more frequently that you could ever imagine. The operating system was not stored there, it was stored in the ROM and the environment was Spectrum Basic, not DOS, CP/M, or any other operating system. We gave the instructions in Basic, we programmed in Basic, everything we did was in Basic. It was quite hard, but it gave you a better understanding about how a computer works, as the same principles are more or less still valid today. It gave you an inner look if you know what I mean. Unfortunately in Greece, other than the Commodore's and ATARI's whereabouts, we had little info at the time about what was happening on the other side of the Atlantic. We heard the words MS-DOS and "IBM compatible" for the first time, when AMSTRAD built its very first IBM compatible called AMSTRAD 1512. But since it was mainly a business machine, little did we care about it. Unfortunately I don't have my Spectrum anymore, It was long out of order and was lost during my moving from my parent's house when I got married on 1995. Cheers mate and stay safe.

tip: if you ever hit size limit on a FAT32 drive on windows and too lazy to backup & format, try this command: 'CONVERT X:/FS:NTFS' where 'X:' is the FAT32 drive. This command will convert the file system to NTFS while keeping existing files.

@diarykeeper

5 жыл бұрын

handy!

@heiieihy

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sir!

@bersercker

5 жыл бұрын

how is that even posible?

@dieselgeezer18

5 жыл бұрын

@@bersercker evil magic

@DTMAce

5 жыл бұрын

@@bersercker That tool has been around since the early days of Windows 9x. But the likelihood of needing that tool these days is low. The Windows OS's from the last decade and half or so require NTFS to even run, and the chance you would format an additional drive with FAT32 is going to be about nil. The only thing you could possibly run into this on would be external USB memory sticks. As for whether the tool can do exFAT directly, no it won't. It only works on FAT32 and only to convert them to NTFS. If you want to do exFAT, you would have to backup the stick, reformat with exFAT then copy back the contents. You also can't use the tool to convert from NTFS to something else either.

I usually watch Linus Tech Tips to get a refresher on tech. When he explained file systems, it was biased toward Windows file systems. It was unusual for him not to explain common desktop Linux, MacOS, Android, and unusual file systems. It was unusual because even though he explains stuff as fast as possible, he left out many other file systems for more time to joke around. I'm glad that you actually took the time to explain this subject in more detail!

@unusedaccount9130

4 жыл бұрын

DaddyKitty04 LTT is very biased about Windows and insults Apple and Linux a lot. That's why I've stopped watching him.

@IosifStalinsendsyoutoGulag

4 жыл бұрын

@@unusedaccount9130 Apple sux

@CZghost

4 жыл бұрын

@@unusedaccount9130 I've never gave him subscription, I only watch his videos when I need to find some quick info or I am bored. I do not watch him regularily, as most of the time, I just stumble upon his videos by random or as a search result.

@lightningparadox

4 жыл бұрын

@@unusedaccount9130 he explains stuff more related to gaming. Apple sucks for gaming so he keeps his distance from explaining more about apple

@unusedaccount9130

4 жыл бұрын

@@lightningparadox Good point... you'd think though that Linus Tech Tips wouldn't be mostly for gaming

I've been using computers for more than ten years and I've never really understood what are the differences between the file systems.Thanks to you, and the KZread recommendation algorithm, that's a thing of the past.

@karstenberg3954

3 жыл бұрын

Actually it is about the limitations (size of single files, size of partitions, support of OS (which is really NOT up2date)), but not about technical aspects or rights at all (e.g. sudo modprobe ./myfile 777)

four years later, this is still very good learning material. very comprehensive and helpful!

"16 Exabytes, or effectively unlimited" Can't wait to look back on this and just think, we really thought 16 exabytes was alot. It's just as funny whenever reading system architecture books and seeing "Since it support up to one gigabyte of ram, it practically doesn't have any restrains"

@chrisschembari2486

4 жыл бұрын

Every time I hear of exabytes, it takes me back to SGU, where in one episode, the knowledge of an entire civilization is being downloaded to a ship's computer. One engineer looks at a monitor showing the transfer progress and says, "900 exabytes. Still just a drop in the bucket." www.gateworld.net/universe/s2/epilogue/

@kalleklp7291

3 жыл бұрын

I remember when I programmed BASIC on a C64 which had an incredible amount of 64 KB (as long as the thing had power connected). 20 years from now (if it takes that long) we'll have optical PC stations and Exabytes will be as common as Gigabytes today. AI will vastly boost our computer capacity the more it becomes an everyday reality. :)

@spacejaga

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah and first IBM HDDs... With incredible megabytes on them.... Growing up with machines past 386 even 10 GB seemed more than enough. And then internet came along. And movies just rising from 200-300mb rips to 700... And then 1,36 GB. And still growing. I personally never saw a need for 50GB Blu-ray push but some people need to spend extra cash so why wouldn't someone take it.... And one day even Americans will have a decent internet so whole world will be able to finally progress beyond 720p streaming even being an option....

@karstenberg3954

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking about my computers I had so far. In the end of 1997 (Pentium 1/166 MHz/32MB RAM/2 GB HDD) and when I had my second PC in 2001 (Pentium 4/1,8 GHz/80 GB HDD), when I was like: "WOW, nobody (except NASA) would ever be able to fill it totally." And I already thought that, when my father had a PC in 1999 with a 20 GB HDD. :D

@alfathmuqoddas6986

3 жыл бұрын

technology grows at exponential rate, one day 16eb will fit in our pocket sooner than we thought

Sir, I have great respect for you. I have never seen anyone explaining Computers like you do.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks

I kept having issues trying to transfer large files between my two linux computers because i didnt know about the 4gb limitation on my fat32 usb drive. Watching your video to just casually learn more has actually helped me with an issue ive been having for a while, thank you.

@chrisschembari2486

4 жыл бұрын

Try formatting your USB drive to exfat. A Linux distro running the latest kernel (version 5.4) has native exfat support. If your kernel is older than that, you can install exfat support with just a couple of packages. In Kubuntu, for example, the packages are named something like "exfat-utils" and "exfat-fuse", and are in the default repos. I found them by searching for exfat in Muon package manager.

@jamestolliver9970

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisschembari2486 that's the plan now, thanks

Just found out this channel when searching for the difference between fat and exFat, you explain things better than most teachers i've ever had, good work

Mr. Barnatt... You have delivered another EXCELLENT technical tutorial in a concise manner!! When I entered the personal computer industry in 1983, most learning was via self-teaching and trial and error. There were NO Christopher Barnatt types openly sharing their knowledge. Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge with all the young (and not so young) eager learners in the world. Kind regards, T. Phoenix, AZ USA

Good lord, yet ANOTHER great video. Every time I watch your videos I am amazed what you dig up. If you are not in the teaching profession, you have missed your calling sir, because you do such a good job at it for the thousands of us on the other side of your monitor.

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. I have been teaching/lecturing for about 29 years now, for 25 of those years as a member of staff in the University of Nottingham. Now freelance . . .

Brilliant, clear, concise video, well spoken and enunciated and therefore great for non native speakers too. Always appreciate your work. Thank you.

Very clear presentation of the technologies. After 40+ years of using file systems, I thought I should learn about the differences. I particularly liked your story about re-formatting a file which subsequently exceeded the limits of that particular file system.

Christopher, you are so affable and engaging. You come across as a stereotypical gentleman from England (to this American), and I mean that only in the most complimentary of ways. Your calm voice and relaxed candor lend themselves brilliantly to your thorough but simple explanations of things I have often found confounding. Thank you so much for explaining computers to us. Your installments of this program are invaluable to me.

probably the best and concise guide to File Systems I've ever seen.

That last “ very soon “ always creeps me out, I have watched 100s of your videos and every single time WOW. Thanks for the awesome content.

Great video! I haven't gone through the details of these various file systems for 10+ years, since back in CS school. So thanks for the review!

This videos push learning at a higher level, something that youtube is missing

I find it hard to believe we’re in 2019 and there is not a common file system across all devices. Still goes to show that all the operating systems are still silos for their own methods of madness. Good video Chris!

@wikingagresor

5 жыл бұрын

you always have to remember that ext4 is open source, so technically right now there is nothing preventing Microsoft or Apple to integrate support for it into their OS.

@pilgrimm23

5 жыл бұрын

Also, the actual physical file storage mediums have changed so much that a file written say on an IBM 1600 Bit Per Inch 9 track tape, then transferred to a 8" floppy, then 5.25 inch, then 3.5, then a Bournouli SCSI, then a CD, then DVD then Thumb drive...and unless some kind soul did this back when, today each of those formats can only be recovered if you find the drive or media at a flea market and retro-engineer it back into a modern system. The ONLY media for that data that is consistent from start to finish is.... the tech manual about it; ie a written page of print.

@pilgrimm23

5 жыл бұрын

oh early games, some text files, examples of early IBM JCL, perhaps original source listings of a COBOL ALGOL or FORTRAN coding... this and that :) My point being that we humans like to stash things away for the centuries. and back in the 70s and 80s we stashed on formats that now cannot be read.

@drooghead

5 жыл бұрын

It's OK because Linux can use all of the mentioned file systems and many more.

@patricklindahl868

5 жыл бұрын

Nice with standards, everybody got their own! :=)

There are many file system discussions posted on-line. It is tedious to sort through these discussions. Your discussion is the best I've come across. Exactly what I've been looking for. Concise, well enough detailed, and crafted. If I want more information. I can go to print sources with a better than basic understanding of windows file systems. Most of what I've come across on-line is extremely stale and long winded or not relevant to what I want to know about Windows only file systems. Thank you... Good Job

Very well explained. Some more facts worth mentioning: - Journaling file systems need additional space for storing the journal - Formatting an external device with EXT2,3,4 does not work well because of user access rights (chmod 777 required but still not a good option) - Formatting an external device with NTFS used to cause problems when not safely removed on windows and attached to linux afterwards (the ntfs-tools could not fix the problem in the past) - Windows can work with FAT32-disks larger than 32GB, it just cannot create/format larger disks. As far as I know this was artificially enforced for promoting NTFS. I am not sure if there is still such a limitation. - ReiserFS contained a journal before ext3, at least it was included in the kernel earlier than ext3 - ext3 and ext4 are backward compatible and can also be mounted as ext2 (at least as far as I know; important for windows drivers)

@Benoit-Pierre

2 жыл бұрын

Mounting ext2 from external storage is tricky but there are mount option to fix your issue : users, noauto, user= , allow_other ... I have a udev script that does it automatically for me. I just plug any disk and my user can read and write it.

Some additional info to your last statement: It is possible to convert FAT## volumes to NTFS (see Windows command "convert" for more info) whithout data loss if the volume serves enough free space for conversion. This is very handy when you have a >64 GB flash drive formatted with FAT32 and try to place a big file on it, it has fooled me around quite a lot ^^

@sherridavila2948

4 жыл бұрын

I formatted my SSD DRIVE for my blackmagic cinema camera ef mount. I formatted it Xfat. How do I now retrieve those videos so I can upload them to Facebook. My pc is windows 10

Hey Chris, I’ve been watching your channel for some time and just want to thank you for all the work you’ve done explaining... computers and devices along with software. Besides being informative and entertaining they’re presented delightfully and plainly enough for everyone to grasp the information you’re conveying. Thank you!

@ExplainingComputers

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks John, your kind comments are appreciated.

Your my hero !! I wish I had such a big knowlage about computers , but I`m thankful that I can learn from you !! Thank you !

Thanks for this video, it cleared up a lot of uncertainties I had about the formats.

Was just looking this up for a course i'm doing, perfect timing indeed

Thank you a lot. Been confused which to choose for my SD-cards and external drives. Problem now solved.

Quick, simple, straightforward. Thanks a lot, much appreciated!

NTFS = New Technology File System. Engineers are very creative in naming things.

@DTMAce

5 жыл бұрын

Windows NT = Windows New Technology. Windows 2000 originally was named NT5. Then they put a facelift on Windows 98SE and called it Millennium so it looked the same. Thank god XP came out a year and half later to become the best OS for over a decade.

@puchu9507

5 жыл бұрын

Microsoft's engineers to be precise, such as their other invention "Windows orchestrator"

@NoorquackerInd

5 жыл бұрын

@@DTMAce XP is still the best software to leave Microsoft's building, *change my mind.*

@DTMAce

5 жыл бұрын

@@NoorquackerInd Never said it wasn't. But check this out: www.reactos.org/ This is what a modern XP looks like, so to speak. Enjoy.

@FlexibleToast

4 жыл бұрын

@@NoorquackerInd that's a low bar to set, but I will say OneNote is amazing.

The quality of your videos is always of a very high quality Open University or BBC Four production. Always educational and professionally delivered. Thank you.

Wonderful and concise explanation of something that had my head spinning after starting to work with Windows/Mac/Linux systems routinely.Thank You.

Now I know what to do to my USB who works slowly when saving larger size video. This video is useful. A million thanks.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped.

I come back to this video for reference when I encounter file system issues. In the process of adding a permanently-mounted 500gb SSD to my RPi4 NextCloud system, I couldn't set owner. Turns out the SSD was exFAT. I reformatted it to ext4 and it worked perfectly. I learned it here. Thank you!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Bill, glad you sorted it out! :)

The joys of watching defrag

@freesaxon6835

5 жыл бұрын

@RDE Lutherie true, it's the basis of so many system !

@freesaxon6835

5 жыл бұрын

@Marcin Freitag WOW 2gb 😁

@freesaxon6835

5 жыл бұрын

@@serenity6080 🤔😂

@CaveyMoth

5 жыл бұрын

I need a defrag simulator for my SSD.

@builder396

5 жыл бұрын

@Marcin Freitag Win 98 had the prettiest defrag screen in the world. I watched that go on for hours when I was a kid.

Speaking of format. The intro and layouts in your videos reminds me of 70s technology tv shows in England.....This is a great channel. Especially the Pi videos.

Thanks for this, great video. Straight to the point with no filler.

Great video, I’ve been working with computers more than 20 years and is good to refresh the knowledge. Thank you

For tape drive users, there's LTFS (Linear Tape File System) which allows files in tape drives to be accessed normally like other storage medias (no more sequential access needed)

I was studying Operating System Memory Management and You upload this. Wawwww. Thanks

5 жыл бұрын

Teacher Rules !

@ShaidaMuhammad

5 жыл бұрын

@RDE Lutherie Yeah. Storage Management is upcoming Chapter. That's why I said that.

@DMSProduktions

5 жыл бұрын

WOW!

This video is very helpful to help me clarify some missed concepts about storage devices and file systems for my CompTIA A+ 902 certification exam which I'll be taking next month. I took a class for IT security, and never quite learned much about macOS/Linux specific technical things. Thank you!

Very cool, my computer knowledge is outdated and incomplete, so this was a tasty update.

NTFS= New Technology File System ExFAT= Extended File Allocation Table FAT = File Allocation Table APFS = Apple File System And there are many more, like Linux: Ext2 = Second Extended File System Ext3 = Third Extended File System Ext4 = Fourth Extended File System 😇

Tried ZFS today, so easy to create a raid works great. Thanks for the video and idea.

Thanks. I have seen a few of your videos, and I like the fact that you always get to the point and include no nonsense. Keep up the good work!

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind feedback, appreciated.

You make great videos. No nonsense, clear delivery and simple.

Great coverage of this topic. Thank you!

I hate computers and programming, but keep on torturing myself by trying to learn new things within these topics. This video was very interesting and informative. Thanks for a great video which made me suffer minimal! :)

@Commentorist

5 жыл бұрын

You must be masochist😎

I love this guy. Straight to the point and great explanations.

This video was so helpful! I just bought a portable SSD and I know I will be moving files between Windows and Linux, so I needed to make sure to use the right file system.

Once again, an excellent explanation! Your channel is invaluable. Keep up the great work because it's highly appreciated!

Thanks, my British mate. This was very useful. These are the typical things I want to know more of. Cheers!

You really break the knowledge of file system for easier understanding.Thank you.

This was the best explanation of file systems I have found on KZread

I remember going back to the 1980s a friend had a Wang dedicated word processor. You had to buy floppies formatted in their system. You could not format in the machine. They cost a fortune. Another friend had a bit copier, this was a card that would copy a disk a bit at a time. Used to copy locked games. We copied a new Wang floppy writing to an ordinary disk and it did the job. The proprietary systems are amazing when one system should suffice.

May I add some observations please Christopher. BTRFS is a valid choice for Linux systems and it shares many features with ZFS. exFAT and HFS+ are also supported on Linux.

5 жыл бұрын

Besides, you can install a Driver for Windows.

@Salcay

5 жыл бұрын

+XFS

@OpenGL4ever

5 жыл бұрын

No, at the moment it is unreliable. That's why Red Hat removed it from their distribution. And the use of btrfs Raid 5 or better is not recommended and still experimental. Don't use it. ZFS is by far superior and reliable now.

@exalented

5 жыл бұрын

BTRFS has slipped away from the competition. ZFS is just butter.

@HarmonicaMustang

5 жыл бұрын

@@OpenGL4ever Interesting how I hear that BTRFS is terrible and unstable, but my experiences say otherwise. I work with multiple Synology NAS boxes which use BTRFS as standard and I've never had any problems, data loss or corruption. I see how ZFS is superior and should be used when given a choice between the two, but I'm struggling to see why BTRFS is shamed.

hands down the best, straight to the point, no bs video on the subject matter

@ExplainingComputers

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. :)

Oh my goodness!!! Thank you so much for this video. It was absolutely AWESOME!!! Straight to the point, thorough, and organized in a way that's easy to understand! Thank you very much!

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

That was a nice video, well presented to put forward the information contained within it. Good job!

Good overview of systems! Very helpful to know the specs of each.

Loved how well and simply it's all explain.

I was thinking about this last week, thank you very much for this video, as usual you rock Chris! 🤘🏻

Hello Chris, nice to see you again, Happy Father´s day, My favorite File System is the ZFS File System it is so robust, I use it with TrueOS, I even managed to recuperate a sector damaged hard drive.

Good Morning! Glad to see you and happy fathers day!

Marvelously explained because you really know what you're talking about, unlike most other YT computer channels.

@Deathrape2001

Жыл бұрын

There R many mistakes, like pretending U need NTFS more than U do, or that it is better or more reliable than FAT32 & so on. I've found the exact opposite is true. NTFS is absolute $hit.

Thanks Chris. This is precisely what I needed to know.

I like this explanation. So fluent and understandable

Wow! This guy knows his stuff! Helped me decide that I need to format my 32GB flash drive as exFat, so I can store files bigger than 4GB! Simples! 😂

woah loved the video. All the information I need. Easily explained and included all formats! Looking forward to you other videos!

As I watch this channel I became a great fan of it. The things are elaborated very nicely n simply but on technical n scientific basis. Keep it up. You are doing great job. Best Regards Prof.Dr.Mustansar, Consultant Dermatologist, Malaysia.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. :)

@drmustansarhussain4307

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure n honour 4me.

@drmustansarhussain4307

3 жыл бұрын

Respected n Dear Christopher you have a wonderful n impressive personality n your way of describing the details is so innovative n Great that I would like to offer you the grade of Father of Knowledge n say you the Einstein of today. I m so much impressed by u that ist. time in my life a desire emerged in my heart to wish you n request you to sometimes co ordinate with me on my email if you like n don't have no issue, as we both are usually busy so you won't have any problem due to this co ordination. My personal email id is, drmustansarhussain@gmail.com And Hopefully will wait friendly email from you impatiently. Best Regards, Prof.Dr.Mustansar, Consultant Dermatologist, Malaysia.

@drmustansarhussain4307

3 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️

@drmustansarhussain4307

3 жыл бұрын

As I don't know the method how to send heart with the pic so I m sending the hearts through the method which I knew. Kindly feel the warmness n acknowledgment to your vast knowledge n greatness. Best Regards.

Great effort making this information accessible. I started using XFS for data drives years ago and that has been pretty reliable, it has journaling and it is a very performant (resource light) filesystem. I believe it is used in storage appliances from the likes of Buffalo for those reasons. Modern Linux distros handle exFAT, NTFS and HFS very well as FUSE filesystems, as ever Linux is the Swiss army knife of computing.

I really loved the experience point of view, terrific video.

Best computer information channel bar none. This style was perfected decades ago and never bettered. Increasing the entertainment quotient inevitably means losing information transfer. Might mean more subs though 😉

I always revisit this video whenever I'm in doubt about the filesystem types ❤

@ExplainingComputers

4 ай бұрын

Great to hear!

Update: You can safely use ZFS for Linux as the standard system, especially when your Linux runs on a server and/or you are running it on an array. It brings more than just RAID, it's robust, the Linux port is now ported back to BSD because the Linux project has better funding for further development and you have a build in snapshot system that can be used to roll back if something gets messed up. It also can transfer data across clusters which makes it available for backup and load-balancing solutions.

There are also file systems with advanced features like data and metadata checksums - which allows for detection and often even prevention of bit rot - transparent compression, snapshots, ..., which none of the mentioned file systems have. Btrfs, ZFS, Bcachefs would be the more popular of those file systems.

@Benoit-Pierre

2 жыл бұрын

Few people will understand what you are talking about.

@filiphabek271

Жыл бұрын

ZFS was mentioned, still disappointed that BTRFS wasn't.

I also format my USB drives to NTFS when copying disc image but I used to do it without this storage knowledge. Thanks for new idea about exFAT

Well done video, thank you for taking the time to explain the differences.

Great video. Now it gave me better understanding when formatting drive.. OS, ssd as additional and SD cards. All the best!

A very informative videos as usual. Thank you very much Christopher.

This video is amazing ! It gives a really good overview of file systems, their advantages and disadvantages. Thanks a lot for making this video. I hope I can't wait until you upload your next video.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I upload a new video every Sunday.

This an excellent video for a quick reference on file systems.

OMG the grafix the grafix, such a good job and so helpful in explaining so anyone can understand. Great video.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Very good video. The other advantage to the latter file systems was they ability to handle file names of 128 characters. Early systems were limited to 32.

@ExplainingComputers

11 ай бұрын

Early file systems (eg DOS) were limited to eight characters and a three character extension! :)

@electric7487

6 ай бұрын

​@@ExplainingComputers So THAT'S why all those Windows filenames were so confusing!

Valuable Video as always! Thank you Chris!

Really can't understand why this guy doesn't get more Veiws. He explains everything to well.

@Mr_exe32

2 ай бұрын

I guarantee if he got rid of the bowl cut his view-count would skyrocket.

Aw man, just a day too late! Just cloned another HDD to SSD yesterday and I was wondering again what the differences were between all of these. Great video, nonetheless! I always love learning.

This video was put together really really well and is definitely a good short hand reference. Was hoping you’d cover btrfs though

Very informative and easy to follow video, thank you for this!

Very good explaination of the most popular file systems and their main characteristics. Thank you.

This is an excellent video! And I shared it with the Twitter world! LOL THANK YOU!!!

Best explanation yet simple enough! 😁👍

Best explanation i've found so far. Thank you Sir !!!

Excellent information; very well presented. Thank you!

This explains almost everything. That exFAT always boggled me.

Thanks for the video. I learned we once had 'FAT12' from this video.

@DFX2KX

5 жыл бұрын

My 386 was formatted in FAT12 IIRC. You know a filesystem is old when even DOS games won't install...

ABSOLUTELY great video

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly

Thank you man I needed this!! Now i know what File System to choose and learned about other one i didn't even knew.😃❤👊🏾