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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Attribute (knowledge representation) Attribute–value pair File attribute Extended file attributes Field (computer science) Property (programming) Java annotation...
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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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Label (Mac OS) (redirect from File label (Mac OS))
system has allowed users to assign multiple arbitrary tags as extended file attributes to any item ever since OS X 10.9 was released in 2013. These tags...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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EROFS (redirect from Enhanced Read-Only File System)
tail-packing inline data technology Support POSIX attributes and permissions, extended file attributes and ACL Fixed-size output transparent compression...
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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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ISO 9660 (redirect from Joliet (file system))
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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Ext4 (redirect from Fourth extended filesystem)
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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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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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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Ext3 (redirect from Third extended filesystem)
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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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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Gerber format (redirect from Extended Gerber file format)
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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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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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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Tag (metadata) (redirect from Tags assigned to files)
released in 2013, users could assign multiple arbitrary tags as extended file attributes to any file or folder, and before that time the open-source OpenMeta...
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