compare and contrast Linux and Macintosh file systems in rel

compare and contrast Linux and Macintosh file systems in relation to Graphic file recovery

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Macintosh:

Apple\'s Macintosh OS is older than Windows. It is the first ever successful graphical-based operating system, being released one year before it\'s Microsoft counterpart.

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LINUX:

Linux is GNU\'s answer to Mac, means that Linux is FREE! By free, you can download, modify and redistribute it without spending a dime! Unfortunately, it has some disadvantages also...

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File System:

Apple Mac operating system applies HFS+ file system. This is extension to their own HFS file system that was used on old Mac computers.

HFS+ file system is operated by Apple desktop products, including Mac computers, iPhone, iPod. Advanced server products also use Apple Xsan file system, clustered file system derived from StorNext or CentraVision file systems.

This file system stores files and folders as well as Finder information about directories view, window positions etc

Linux: Open-source Linux OS aims at implementing, testing and using different concepts of file systems. The most popular Linux file systems nowadays are:

1)Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 – These are native Linux file system. This file system falls under active developments and improvements. Ext3 file system is just an extension to Ext2 which uses transactional file write operations with a journal. Ext4 is a further development of Ext3, extended with support of optimized file allocation information (extents) and extended file attributes.

2) XFS - file system derived from SGI Company and was initially used for company’s IRIX servers. Now XFS specifications are implemented in Linux. XFS file system has great performance and is widely used to store files.