title: What makes the Unix file system more superior to the Windows file system?
body: <p>I'll admit that I don't know the inner workings of the unix operating system, so I was hoping someone could shed some light on this topic.</p>
  
  <p>Why is the Unix file system better than the windows file system?</p>
  
  <p>Would grep work just as well on Windows, or is there something fundamentally different that makes it more powerful on a Unix box?</p>
  
  <p>e.g. I have heard that in a Unix system, the number of files in a given directory will not slow file access, while on Windows direct file access will degrade as the # of files increase in the given folder, true?</p>
  
  <p>Updates:
  Brad, no such thing as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_File_System" rel="noreferrer">unix file system</a>?</p>