Summary
The design of the filesystem used by an OS can greatly help or hinder the OS in performing the tasks for which it is intended. Filesystem speed and reliability, and the types of metadata supported by the filesystem all influence your ability to work in your OS of choice. In some cases, you have choices about what filesystems you can use—Windows NT and OS/2 both enable you to use FAT or a more sophisticated filesystem; and Linux supports several UNIX-like filesystems. In other cases, you might need to use a non-native filesystem for data storage and exchange to work most effectively across multiple OSs. Your choice of which filesystems to use can influence the ease with which you can work across multiple OSs.
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