For example, traversing a file system tree from the root node to the file of interest requires jumping from an inode to a directory file (potentially multi-indexed) to the file location.

Bcachefs will probably remain in the kernel after the spat, but will not be developed further – This enables trouble-free updates as long as users do not cheat.

Linux provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them.

Microsoft seems to be trying to move to a new file system with ReFS, but can it actually replace NTFS in Windows? Probably not yet.