Timeline for Which filesystem does Android attach to the root directory?
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| Jun 15, 2016 at 17:02 | comment | added | eldarerathis | @Abdul Sort of. Many (maybe all) of the filesystems that Linux supports are implemented as kernel modules, meaning they can be omitted from a build or loaded/unloaded at runtime. They're technically still a portion of the kernel's source code, but not a mandatory part of every build, which is why support can differ between devices a bit; it's dependent on the ROM's kernel actually having the relevant module for a filesystem built and available. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 12:41 | comment | added | Honinbo Shusaku | @eldarerathis "Any FS that the kernel can load drivers for is basically fair game" Does his imply that the filesystem is independent of the kernel, at least for Linux? | |
| Dec 4, 2015 at 18:29 | comment | added | eldarerathis |
@david.perez The question isn't about SD cards, it's about /.
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| Dec 4, 2015 at 17:31 | comment | added | david.perez | But in recent devices like Amazon Fire HD 7, a SD card cannot be formatted to ext4. Huawei Ascend P7 allows NTFS in a SD card | |
| Jan 16, 2015 at 2:47 | comment | added | Ryan Conrad | RFS had a name among most users that had a device that used it... Really Freaking Slow. | |
| Jan 13, 2015 at 17:09 | history | edited | eldarerathis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add Ars article and a bit of clarification
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| Jan 13, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | SztupY | Old Samsung Android phones (early phones with Android 2.1, like the i9000) also used something called RFS, which was basically FAT with UNIX style permissions support. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 22:57 | vote | accept | yanpas | ||
| Jan 12, 2015 at 19:44 | history | edited | eldarerathis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 19:39 | history | answered | eldarerathis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |