07 Jul 15 22:56, you wrote to me:   
      
    EV>>> Now to look up JFS, Thanks!   
      
    ml>> generally speaking, modern operating systems use IFSes... Installable   
    ml>> File Systems... that means that FAT, HPFS, NTFS, JFS and numerous   
    ml>> others may be added to a system and used on a drive or partition...   
      
    EV> Thanks for looking that stuff up - or did all of what You wrote just   
    EV> came off the top of Your head?   
      
   most of it i already knew... some of the stuff below i gathered quickly and   
   wrote in my own words...   
      
    ml>> FAT is "File Allocation Table" and comes in three flavours that   
    EV> -snip-   
    ml>> HPFS is "High Performance File System"... it uses B+ Trees to   
    EV> -snip-   
    ml>> NTFS is "New Technology File System" and is a modified version   
    EV> -snip-   
    ml>> JFS is "Journaling File System"... the biggest thing is that,   
      
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    EV> All that will take some time for me to read, Thanks for the message.   
    EV> I'm sure others here enjoyed Your post too!   
      
   not a problem... i hope those links are helpful to you in learning some of the   
   details about the various file systems and their features...   
      
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