In a computer file system, a fork is a set of data associated with a file-system object. File systems without forks only allow a single set of data for...
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resource fork is a fork of a file on Apple's classic Mac OS operating system that is used to store structured data. It is one of the two forks of a file, along...
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HFS Plus (redirect from Hierarchical File System Plus)
n-forked files similar to NTFS, though until 2005 almost no system software took advantage of forks other than the data fork and resource fork. HFS Plus...
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File System (BFS) is the native file system for the BeOS. In the Linux kernel, it is referred to as "BeFS" to avoid confusion with Boot File System....
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portal File System Visualizer on SourceForge A fork for more recent versions of Linux. on GitHub A fork for Windows. on GitHub "fsv - 3D File System Visualizer"...
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computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself...
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Iran Fork, Maryland, United States, a town Fork Township (disambiguation), several districts in the United States Fork (file system), a part of a file in...
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In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access. A local file system is a capability of...
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A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering...
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Apple File System (APFS) is a proprietary file system developed and deployed by Apple Inc. for macOS Sierra (10.12.4) and later, iOS 10.3, tvOS 10.2,...
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2012. It started as a fork of the GNOME file manager Nautilus v3.4[better source needed] after the developers of the operating system Linux Mint considered...
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The FAT file system is a file system used on MS-DOS and Windows 9x family of operating systems. It continues to be used on mobile devices and embedded...
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distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. The name Lustre is a portmanteau word derived from Linux and cluster. Lustre file system...
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The VERITAS File System (or VxFS; called JFS and OnlineJFS in HP-UX) is an extent-based file system. It was originally developed by VERITAS Software....
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systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....
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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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Macintosh File System (MFS) is a volume format (or disk file system) created by Apple Computer for storing files on 400K floppy disks. MFS was introduced...
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ForkLift is a dual-pane file manager and file transfer client for macOS, developed by BinaryNights. ForkLift 1.0 was released on June 1, 2007. ForkLift...
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File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default file system for the MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating...
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records of creation and modification times). Unlike forks, which can usually be as large as the maximum file size, extended attributes are usually limited in...
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Journaled File System (JFS) is a 64-bit journaling file system created by IBM. There are versions for AIX, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS and Linux operating...
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fork is a form of branching, but generally involves storing the forked files separately from the original; not in the repository. Reasons for forking...
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File System List of file systems § Distributed fault-tolerant file systems LizardFS – a fork of MooseFS v. 1.6.x Lustre Contributors to moosefs/moosefs ·...
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available in other file systems of the time (such as DOS's FAT). Files could have multiple forks (normally a data and a resource fork), which allowed the...
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ISO 9660 (redirect from Joliet (file system))
ISO 9660 (also known as ECMA-119) is a file system for optical disc media. The file system is an international standard available from the International...
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The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for sharing data using a distributed hash table...
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file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems...
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MacBinary is a file format that combines the data fork and the resource fork of a classic Mac OS file into a single file, along with HFS's extended metadata...
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Performance File System) is a file system created specifically for the OS/2 operating system to improve upon the limitations of the FAT file system. It was...
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storage reserved for a file in a file system, represented as a range of block numbers, or tracks on count key data devices. A file can consist of zero or...
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