NTFS, fat32, exfat, could I theoretically create my own filesystem? If so would my computer even be able to work with most files or connect to other devices?

  • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    FYI you might be interested in WinBTRFS:

    https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs

    Which is basically what you are describing: shoehorning support for a new file system into Windows.

    Linux in particular has all sorts of exotic and special purpose filesystem, like swap on spare GPU VRAM, software managed SSD stacks and such.

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      There’s also ways to support ext3-4 on windows as well. And FUSE is also very interesting as it shows you what kind of esoteric stuff can be mapped onto a fake file system.