Comparison of Operating System Kernels - File System Support

File System Support

Physical file systems:

Kernel Acorn ADFS Amiga FFS BeFS BFS cramfs EFS ext2 ext3 ext4 FAT FreeVxFS HFS HFS+ HPFS ISO 9660 JFFS JFFS2 JFS MINIX fs NSS NTFS OCFS QNX4 FS System V FS UDF UFS XFS ZFS ReiserFS Reiser4 Btrfs HAMMER Tux3 exFAT
FreeBSD kernel No No No No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes No No No No No limited write No No No Yes Yes read only Yes read only No No No No ?
Linux kernel Yes
 Yes read only Yes Yes read only Yes Yes Yes Yes read only Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes limited write
 Yes Yes

 write support? Yes Yes
 Yes both FUSE and native Yes Yes Yes No Yes (experimental patch is available)
MINIX 3 No No No No No No Yes No No Tools available, cannot mount No No No No Yes No No No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
NetWare kernel No No No No No No No No No Yes No No No No Yes No No No No Yes No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No ?
ReactOS kernel No No No No No No No No No Yes No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No No
Solaris kernel ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? No No ? ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes No No No No No ?
Windows NT kernel ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes
 Yes
 ? Yes ? Yes
 Yes
 No Yes ? ? ? ? No Yes ? ? ? Yes ? ? No No No No No No Yes
XNU No No No No No No Yes
 Yes
 No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No limited write No No No Yes Yes No read only No No No No No Yes

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