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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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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require using a different API or library and have different semantics (most often those of a database). Distributed file systems may aim for "transparency"...
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Installable File System (IFS) is a filesystem API in MS-DOS/PC DOS 4.x, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows that enables the operating system to recognize...
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InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. By using...
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VERITAS File System – enabled via the pre-allocation API and CLI XFS – SGI's second-generation file system for Irix and Linux Comparison of file systems "Understanding...
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user-supplied file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the operating system's file system API. An affected...
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extension to NIO that offers a new file system API, called NIO.2, was released with Java SE 7 ("Dolphin"). The APIs of NIO were designed to provide access...
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DOS API is an API which originated with 86-DOS and is used in MS-DOS/PC DOS and other DOS-compatible operating systems. Most calls to the DOS API are...
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requiring that the developer understand the file system operations occurring behind the scenes. The term API initially described an interface only for end-user-facing...
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