Hpfs

please explain macintosh HPFS.

Hpfs or high performance file system is a file system created specifically for the os/2 operating system to improve upon the limitations of the fat file system. It was written by gordon letwin and others at microsoft and added to os/2 version 1.2, at that time still a joint undertaking of microsoft and ibm. To see more search in google there is no connection between hpfs and mac os x as mac uses hfs(hirarical file system)

Ntfs is a high-performance and self-healing file system proprietary to windows xp 2000 nt which supports file-level security compression and auditing. It also supports large volumes and powerful storage solution such as raid. Fat system <the fat file systems. Fat32 fat16 fat12 > the file allocation table (fat) file system is a simple file system originally designed for small disks and simple folder structures. The fat file system is named for its method of organization the file allocation table which resides at the beginning of the volume. To protect the volume two copies of the table are kept in case one becomes damaged. In addition the file allocation tables and the root folder must be stored in a fixed location so that the files needed to start the system can be correctly located.