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2004:Michael Dell
1912:Acquisitions
1833:Thin clients
1519:File manager
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815:Flash memory
782:Optical disc
720:soft updates
700:Soup (Apple)
350:non-rotating
316:File systems
259:. Retrieved
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216:the original
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169:multitenancy
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125:Architecture
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1984:Virtustream
1974:Secureworks
1871:Smartphones
1485:Permissions
1100:Specialized
332:distributed
261:October 24,
143:scalability
137:, flexible
2046:Categories
1997:Key people
1969:Quest KACE
1944:EqualLogic
1861:UltraSharp
1693:PowerVault
1511:Interfaces
1495:Sticky bit
1375:Versioning
1340:Journaling
1283:Rubberhose
1079:SMB (CIFS)
871:host-side
176:References
119:PowerVault
81:(SMB) and
72:Compellent
68:EqualLogic
36:filesystem
2006:(founder)
1979:SonicWall
1924:AppAssure
1919:Alienware
1884:Venue Pro
1844:Dell Wyse
1814:Dimension
1790:Precision
1749:Alienware
1676:PowerEdge
1643:Dell Inc.
1370:Synthetic
1313:Clustered
1260:Encrypted
1191:OverlayFS
800:ISO 13490
376:Amiga OFS
371:Amiga FFS
133:, native
48:appliance
1852:Monitors
1795:OptiPlex
1785:Latitude
1773:Business
1764:G Series
1754:Inspiron
1719:Z-series
1716:S series
1713:N series
1710:H series
1662:Hardware
1648:Dell EMC
1455:Symbolic
1384:Features
1360:Semantic
1268:eCryptfs
1212:configfs
1181:SquashFS
1069:POHMELFS
970:OrangeFS
795:ISO 9660
715:UFS/UFS2
663:Reliance
651:ReiserFS
497:Files-11
391:bcachefs
348:Disk and
256:dell.com
238:dell.com
198:dell.com
162:Capacity
131:metadata
38:made by
1949:Force10
1669:Servers
1573:Layouts
1559:Default
1222:debugfs
1196:UnionFS
1090:more...
1023:OpenAFS
991:more...
656:Reiser4
626:OpenZFS
517:HAMMER2
473:ext3cow
453:Episode
139:caching
89:History
32:FluidFS
1879:Streak
1824:Studio
1780:Vostro
1653:VMware
1446:Links
1420:Extent
1350:Object
1318:Global
1236:specfs
1232:procfs
1227:kernfs
1205:Pseudo
1186:UMSDOS
1141:Davfs2
1136:cramfs
1074:Hadoop
1054:Lustre
940:BeeGFS
906:NILFS2
641:QNX4FS
604:NILFS2
512:HAMMER
502:Fossil
95:Exanet
2014:Other
1934:Boomi
1889:Venue
1839:FX100
1809:Adamo
1546:Lists
1490:Modes
1335:Flash
1306:Types
1288:SSHFS
1273:EncFS
1250:WinFS
1245:tmpfs
1240:sysfs
1217:devfs
1151:FTPFS
1146:EROFS
1084:SSHFS
965:OCFS2
918:UBIFS
913:YAFFS
901:NILFS
896:LogFS
891:JFFS2
847:EROFS
837:exFAT
742:Xiafs
725:WAPBL
710:UBIFS
621:OneFS
599:NILFS
594:Next3
584:MINIX
490:exFAT
418:Btrfs
386:AthFS
366:AdvFS
148:iSCSI
56:iSCSI
30:, or
2057:Dell
2021:Axim
1989:Wyse
1686:VRTX
1450:Hard
1442:Fork
1323:Grid
1176:MVFS
1171:NOVA
1166:LTFS
1161:Lnfs
1156:FUSE
1126:CDfs
1116:AXFS
1111:Aufs
1049:GPFS
1034:Coda
985:Xsan
975:PVFS
955:GFS2
950:CXFS
945:Ceph
886:JFFS
881:CHFS
862:NVFS
852:F2FS
842:TFAT
827:APFS
817:and
761:z/OS
752:Xsan
737:WAFL
732:VxFS
705:Tux3
695:SNFS
677:SFS
646:ReFS
616:NTFS
568:MFS
554:HTFS
549:HPFS
544:HFS+
507:GPFS
478:ext4
468:ext3
463:ext2
437:EFS
428:CXFS
423:CVFS
410:z/VM
395:BFS
381:APFS
361:ADFS
263:2017
113:and
103:NDMP
40:Dell
1759:XPS
1293:ZFS
1278:EFS
1064:NFS
1059:NCP
1039:DFS
1029:AFP
1019:AFS
1006:NAS
980:QFS
857:JFS
832:FAT
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805:UDF
790:HSF
771:Sun
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747:XFS
673:RFS
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559:JFS
538:MVS
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485:FAT
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