A virtual file system (VFS) or virtual filesystem switch is an abstract layer on top of a more concrete file system. The purpose of a VFS is to allow...
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device for a file system. File systems such as tmpfs can store files in virtual memory. A virtual file system provides access to files that are either...
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Virtual File System for Git (VFS for Git), developed by Microsoft, is an extension to the Git version control system. VFS for Git is designed to ease the...
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overcome certain limitations of the MINIX file system. It was the first implementation that used the virtual file system (VFS), for which support was added in...
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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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Virtual File System (PVFS) is an open-source parallel file system. A parallel file system is a type of distributed file system that distributes file data...
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GVfs (redirect from GNOME Virtual file system)
GVfs (abbreviation for GNOME virtual file system) is GNOME's userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the I/O abstraction of GIO, a library...
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to more thorough information on file systems. Many older operating systems support only their one "native" file system, which does not bear any name apart...
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Russel Sandberg, Bob Lyon, Bill Joy, Steve Kleiman, and others. The Virtual File System interface allows a modular implementation, reflected in a simple...
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ISBN 1-55615-481-X. Virtual file system List of file systems Comparison of file systems Network redirector Dokan Library "FAT32 Installable File System Driver"....
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GnomeVFS (redirect from GNOME Virtual File System)
(short for GNOME Virtual File System) was an abstraction layer of the GNOME platform for the reading, writing and execution of files. Before GNOME 2.22...
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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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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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resources into a series of virtual machines, operating systems, processes or containers. Virtualization began in the 1960s with IBM CP/CMS. The control program...
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OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...
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Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and InnoTek VirtualBox) is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle...
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whose main query interface looked like a traditional file system interface via a virtual directory system that interpreted a path as a conjunctive query. Their...
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Memory paging (redirect from Swap file)
system. For historical reasons, this technique is sometimes referred to as swapping. When combined with virtual memory, it is known as paged virtual memory...
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Media Transfer Protocol (section Virtual file system)
natively expose them as virtual file systems. Without drive letters or UNC paths, MTP-unaware software cannot access directories or files on these devices....
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OS X, the virtual file system layer supports storing them in any supported file system, including HFS+.[citation needed] Apple File System (APFS) also...
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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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A file system API is an application programming interface through which a utility or user program requests services of a file system. An operating system...
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Dokan Library (category Userspace file systems)
lets programmers create virtual file systems without writing a kernel-level driver. This is achieved by running file system code in user space while...
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disk partitions and a file system, which in turn can contain files and folders. They are typically used as the hard disk of a virtual machine, are built...
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Legacy PC, or restoring a system image made from Backup and Restore (Windows Vista/7) MSI – Windows installation file VDHX – Virtual disk created by Hyper-V...
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memory-mapped file is a segment of virtual memory that has been assigned a direct byte-for-byte correlation with some portion of a file or file-like resource...
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Ceph (software) (redirect from Ceph File System)
Kubernetes, OpenNebula, Ganeti, Apache CloudStack and Proxmox Virtual Environment. Ceph's file system (CephFS) runs on top of the same RADOS foundation as Ceph's...
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VMware VMFS (redirect from Virtual Machine File System)
VMware VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) is VMware, Inc.'s clustered file system used by the company's flagship server virtualization suite, vSphere...
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In computing, file virtualization is a field of storage virtualization operating on computer file level. It involves uniting multiple storage devices...
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elements of FreeBSD (including the process model, network stack, and virtual file system), and an object-oriented device driver API called I/O Kit. The hybrid...
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