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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Memory paging (redirect from Swap file)
    space the system has (a setting selected by the user under Control Panel → Enhanced under "Virtual Memory"). If the user moves or deletes this file, a blue...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Steganographic file systems are a kind of file system first proposed by Ross Anderson, Roger Needham, and Adi Shamir. Their paper proposed two main methods...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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