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Filesystem created for OS/2 operating system

HPFS is a file system created specifically for the OS/2 operating system to improve upon the limitations of the FAT file system. It was written by Gordon Letwin and others at Microsoft and added to OS/2 version 1.2, at that time still a joint undertaking of Microsoft and IBM, and released in 1988. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: High Performance File SystemA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: A Study of Failure Recovery and Logging of High-Performance Parallel File SystemsInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Puppet 27 Cookbook Build Reliable Scalable Secure Highperformance Systems To Fully Utilize The Power Of Cloud ComputingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: RAMA: An easy-to-use, high-performance parallel file systemCited 33 times
  5. Go sideways: Installable File SystemA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: NTFSA closely related topic

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  2. Native support under Windows

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