Cisco IOS File System

eng_ahmedas

Can anyone tell me please, what is the difference between "Cisco IOS File System" and "Cisco IOS". I am so confused and can't get the difference
Thanks in advance

TheShadow

uh this is going to be a smack hand on forehead time. Re-word the question as what is the difference between DOS and its file system (FAT) or Windows and FAT32 or Windows and NTFS. The cisco IOS is after all an Operating System and looks at memory like a disk drive or pen drive. IOS therefore needs a file system. The file system known as IFS is now platform independent. You can read about it here.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12cgcr/fun_c/fcprt2/fcifs.htm

chinaman

It's like your using Windows XP but your file system either NTFS or FAT32.

eng_ahmedas

Thanks All .......U help me too much to understand IFS
Thanks Again

dublin_101

eng_ahmedas wrote:

Can anyone tell me please, what is the difference between "Cisco IOS File System" and "Cisco IOS". I am so confused and can't get the difference
Thanks in advance

ahmed........the example above were perfect..........

the IOS is the software........

and the IFS (file system) is the file system....similar to the way windows looks at your hard drive as c:\ or linux looks at its hard drive as /

the cisco ifs uses the url convention....so it is like a website where you specify the location, directory and file name........