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...

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...

require using a different API or library and have different semantics (most often those of a database). Distributed file systems may aim for "transparency"...

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...

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...

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...

array of storage devices. XAM is similar in function to a file system API such as the POSIX file and directory operations, in that it allows applications...

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...

descriptors are a part of the POSIX API. Each Unix process (except perhaps daemons) should have three standard POSIX file descriptors, corresponding to the...

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...