• support extended attributes, using the extattr_ family of system calls. Any regular file may have a list of extended attributes. Each attribute consists...
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  • File attributes are a type of metadata that describe and may modify how files and/or directories in a filesystem behave. Typical file attributes may, for...
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  • on extended attributes (EAs) and stores them in a hidden file called "EA␠DATA.␠SF" in the root directory of the FAT12 or FAT16 volume. This file is indexed...
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  • Details may be listed with the command ls -Z @ suffix indicates extended file attributes are present Permissions are often shown in octal notation; for...
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  • by Benoit Schillings - formerly BFS), it includes support for extended file attributes (metadata), with indexing and querying characteristics to provide...
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    Attribute (knowledge representation) Attribute–value pair File attribute Extended file attributes Field (computer science) Property (programming) Java annotation...
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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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  • later even though they are only labeled and lack the newer tag extended file attributes (until they are edited in the new system). Since label colors can...
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    Additional attributes can be associated on file systems, such as NTFS, XFS, ext2, ext3, some versions of UFS, and HFS+, using extended file attributes. Some...
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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. Through...
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  • HAMMER2 (category Distributed file systems)
    other filesystems or nodes. It lacks support for extended file attributes ("xattr"). The HAMMER2 file system was conceived by Matthew Dillon, who initially...
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  • distributed file system protocols. For instance, Gifford et al.’s 1991 implementation was fully compatible with NFS. Extended file attributes provided by...
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  • document". Thus a file may have several types. The NTFS filesystem also allows storage of OS/2 extended attributes, as one of the file forks, but this feature...
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    The attributes of a file are stored in the directory entry that describes the file, and optionally in the extended attribute record. To locate a file, the...
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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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  • tail-packing inline data technology Support POSIX attributes and permissions, extended file attributes and ACL Fixed-size output transparent compression...
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  • ext4 (fourth extended filesystem) is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3. ext4 was initially a series of backward-compatible...
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  • 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. There are...
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  • deputy problem DACL Extended file attributes File-system permissions Privilege (computing) Role-based access control (RBAC) E.g., File-system permissions...
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  • Soft updates (category Computer file systems)
    Soft updates is an approach to maintaining file system metadata integrity in the event of a crash or power outage. Soft updates work by tracking and enforcing...
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  • deleting and searching for files, as well as modifying file attributes, properties and file permissions. Folders and files may be displayed in a hierarchical...
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  • ext3, or third extended filesystem, is a journaled file system that is commonly used with the Linux kernel. It used to be the default file system for many...
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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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  • SquashFS (category Compression file systems)
    6.35 added support for extended file attributes. Free and open-source software portal AppImage Btrfs Cloop Comparison of file systems Cramfs e2compr EROFS...
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  • and extended file attributes, controls file access permissions/ACLs, and tells clients the layout of the object(s) that make up each regular file. MDTs...
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    ACLs and Extended file attributes. It handles special files also - like hardlinks, symlinks, devices files, etc. Internally it represents the files in an...
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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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    meta-information to the graphics objects. Files with attributes are called X2 files; those without attributes are X1 files. Standard Gerber, or RS-274-D. This...
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  • contain "/" characters. Extended attributes in Network File System Version 4 are similar to Solaris-style extended attributes. When a file system supports different...
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  • NTFS (redirect from NT File System)
    data of files, the alternate data streams, or the index data for directories are stored as attributes. According to $AttrDef, some attributes can be either...
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