subdirectories. Almost all file systems today are hierarchical. What is referred to as a file system is a specific instance of a hierarchical system. For example,...
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operating system with a hierarchical file system, SOS for the failed Apple III, which also served as the basis for hierarchical file systems on the Apple...
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Hierarchical File System may refer to Hierarchical file system, a file system that is organized hierarchically with a tree structure Hierarchical File...
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HFS Plus (redirect from Hierarchical File System Plus)
Extended) is a journaling file system developed by Apple Inc. It replaced the Hierarchical File System (HFS) as the primary file system of Apple computers with...
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compared to the Macintosh's 400 KB floppy drive. Apple introduced Hierarchical File System as a replacement for MFS in September 1985. In Mac OS 7.6.1, Apple...
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Hierarchical File System, supported on Mac OS 8.1 & above, including macOS. Supports file system journaling, enabling recovery of data after a system...
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with current file systems. It allows the data to be addressed by their content (associative access). Traditional hierarchical file-systems tend to impose...
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IBM's Hierarchical File System (HFS) is a POSIX-style hierarchical file system for the MVS/ESA/SP through z/OS operating systems. IBM introduced HFS on...
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operating system. The native file systems of Unix-like systems also support arbitrary directory hierarchies, as do, Apple's Hierarchical File System and its...
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Directory (computing) (redirect from Directory (file systems))
are organized by storing related files in the same directory. In a hierarchical file system (that is, one in which files and directories are organized in...
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network access, and file versioning. The original ODS-1 layer is a flat file system; the ODS-2 version is a hierarchical file system, with support for access...
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application was loaded (quitting the Finder). System 1's total size is about 216 KB and contained six files: System (which includes the desk accessories), Finder...
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BagIt is a set of hierarchical file system conventions designed to support disk-based storage and network transfer of arbitrary digital content. A "bag"...
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Namespace (redirect from Hierarchical namespace)
namespaces to support virtualization containers. Similarly, hierarchical file systems organize files in directories. Each directory is a separate namespace...
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a synthetic file system or a pseudo file system is a hierarchical interface to non-file objects that appear as if they were regular files in the tree...
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Hierarchical storage management (HSM), also known as tiered storage, is a data storage and data management technique that automatically moves data between...
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Sosumi (category Macintosh operating systems user interface)
was later changed to "Sonumi" as it appears in the System Preferences. The sound file itself in /System/Library/Sounds/ is still named Sosumi.aiff, and other...
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Management System (IMS) and RDM Mobile are examples of a hierarchical database system with multiple hierarchies over the same data. The hierarchical data model...
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System or MFS, 1984–1985, full support discontinued with System 7.6.1 The Hierarchical File System or HFS, 1985 until the release of Mac OS X, was still...
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Classic Mac OS (redirect from Mac OS Classic (operating system))
Macintosh File System (MFS), a flat file system with only one level of folders. This was quickly replaced in 1985 by the Hierarchical File System (HFS),...
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Working directory (category File system directories)
computing, the working directory of a process is a directory of a hierarchical file system, if any, dynamically associated with the process. It is sometimes...
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Computer. It was launched on May 13, 1991, to succeed System 6 with virtual memory, personal file sharing, QuickTime, TrueType fonts, the Force Quit dialog...
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Franchise Systems, US Hierarchical file system, a system for organizing directories and files Hierarchical File System (Apple), a file system introduced...
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files or archive files. The Mac OS' Hierarchical File System stores codes for creator and type as part of the directory entry for each file. These codes are...
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NTFS (redirect from NT File System)
NT File System (NTFS) (commonly called New Technology File System) is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft in the 1990s. It was...
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SunOS filesystem(7) and its successor, the Solaris filesystem(7). Hierarchical file system Unix directory structure XDG Base Directory Specification Historically...
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changed from OpenEdition to OS/390 UNIX System Services "z/OS base elements". ibm.com. "Hierarchical File System" (PDF). ti-leipzig.de. Archived from the...
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Path (computing) (redirect from File path)
path (or filepath, file path, pathname, or similar) is a text string that uniquely specifies an item in a hierarchical file system. Generally, a path...
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three basic principles: Resources as files: all resources are represented as files within a hierarchical file system Namespaces: a program's view of the...
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representing the file system; each volume holds an independent "tree" (or, for non-hierarchical file systems, an independent list of files). The concept...
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