Supported file systems

- [Instructor] When you create a new volume,…any type of volume, one of the things you're…prompted to do is format that volume.…And you've given some choices regarding the file system.…This is an important choice to make.…The decisions that you make here will affect how…that volume can be used and unlike times gone by,…there's not a simple conversion to take you…from one to the other.…So take some time to figure out which one you need.…One of the oldest available options…is the file allocation table, FAT…or FAT 32 is the current version…that you see in Windows server 2019.…

One of the long running benefits of the FAT file system…is that it can be easily read locally…by pretty much any platform.…I'm not entirely certain that that's important…because I don't which of my server files…I want to be read by something else locally at that box.…But it is quick enough as long as the drive remains…unfragmented but it was really limited in terms of…maximum size of files and volumes.…Not to mention the absence of any real security features.…