Things your file system may support ACL (access control list) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list journaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 snapshots/clones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot_(computer_storage) extents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extent_(file_systems) copy-on-write https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs striping quotas directory indexing (fast..) versioning (for files) encryption https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/ecryptfs.html.en https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManualFullSystemEncryption Windows 10 NTFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS Apple APFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System LVM -- striping? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_default_file_systems https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemsExplained