File system Creator Year of introduction Original operating system DECtape DEC 1964 PDP-6 Monitor DASD IBM 1964 OS/360 Level-D DEC 1968 TOPS-10 George 2 ICT (later ICL) 1968 George 2 Version 6 Unix file system (V6FS) Bell Labs 1972 Version 6 Unix RT-11 file system DEC 1973 RT-11 CP/M file system Gary Kildall 1974 CP/M GEC DOS filing system extended GEC 1977 OS4000 FAT12 Microsoft 1977 Microsoft Disk BASIC DOS 3.x Apple Computer 1978 Apple DOS Pascal Apple Computer 1978 Apple Pascal CBM DOS Commodore 1978 Microsoft BASIC (for CBM PET) Version 7 Unix file system (V7FS) Bell Labs 1979 Version 7 Unix ODS-2 DEC 1979 OpenVMS DFS Acorn Computers Ltd 1982 Acorn BBC Micro MOS ADFS Acorn Computers Ltd 1983 Acorn Electron (later Arthur RISC OS) FFS Kirk McKusick 1983 4.2BSD ProDOS Apple Computer 1983 ProDOS 8 MFS Apple Computer 1984 Mac OS Elektronika BK tape format NPO "Scientific centre" (now Sitronics) 1985 Vilnius Basic, BK monitor program HFS Apple Computer 1985 Mac OS Amiga OFS Metacomco for Commodore 1985 Amiga OS High Sierra Ecma International 1985 MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS NWFS Novell 1985 NetWare 286 FAT16 Microsoft 1987 MS-DOS 3.31 Minix V1 FS Andrew S. Tanenbaum 1987 Minix 1.0 Amiga FFS Commodore 1988 Amiga OS 1.3 HPFS IBM & Microsoft 1988 OS/2 ISO 9660:1988 Ecma International, Microsoft 1988 MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and AmigaOS JFS1 IBM 1990 AIX[lower-alpha 1] VxFS VERITAS 1991 SVR4.0 ext Rémy Card 1992 Linux AdvFS DEC 1993[1] Digital Unix NTFS Microsoft, Gary Kimura, Tom Miller 1993 Windows NT LFS Margo Seltzer 1993 Berkeley Sprite ext2 Rémy Card 1993 Linux, Hurd Xiafs Q. Frank Xia 1993 Linux UFS1 Kirk McKusick 1994 4.4BSD XFS SGI 1994 IRIX, Linux, FreeBSD HFS IBM 1994 MVS/ESA (now z/OS) Joliet ("CDFS") Microsoft 1995 Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD UDF ISO/ECMA/OSTA 1995 FAT32 Microsoft 1996 Windows 95b[lower-alpha 2] QFS Sun Microsystems 1996 Solaris GPFS IBM 1996 AIX, Linux Be File System Be Inc., D. Giampaolo, Cyril Meurillon 1996 BeOS Minix V2 FS Andrew S. Tanenbaum 1997 Minix 2.0 HFS Plus Apple Computer 1998 Mac OS 8.1 NSS Novell 1998 NetWare 5 PolyServe File System (PSFS) PolyServe 1998 Windows, Linux ODS-5 DEC 1998 OpenVMS 7.2 WAFL NetApp 1998 Data ONTAP ext3 Dr. Stephen C. Tweedie 1999 Linux ISO 9660:1999 Ecma International, Microsoft 1999 Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and AmigaOS Lustre Cluster File Systems[2] 2002 Linux JFS IBM 1999 OS/2 Warp Server for e-business GFS Sistina (Red Hat) 2000 Linux ReiserFS Namesys 2001 Linux zFS IBM 2001 z/OS (backported to OS/390) FATX Microsoft 2002 Xbox UFS2 Kirk McKusick 2002 FreeBSD 5.0 OCFS Oracle Corporation 2002 Linux VMFS2 VMware 2002 VMware ESX Server 2.0 Fossil Bell Labs 2003 Plan 9 from Bell Labs 4 Google File System Google 2003 Linux ZFS Sun Microsystems 2004 Solaris Reiser4 Namesys 2004 Linux Non-Volatile File System Palm, Inc.