Meta-data structure and handling

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1996-08-02

1998-05-26

Black, Thomas G.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707101, 707103, G06F 1202

Patent

active

057583609

ABSTRACT:
A file system stores data and meta-data in a like fashion. The lowest level of stored file data on disk is a stream, which constitutes a logically contiguous group of bytes. Related streams, such as found in a file, a directory or a subdirectory, are stored in a variable-sized onode data structure. Variable-sized onode data structures are stored in an array of fixed-sized buckets of disk space. Related onode data structures are stored within catalog data structures. The catalog data structures are stored within the array of fixed-sized buckets of disk space. The array of buckets of fixed-sized buckets of disk space is, in turn, stored as a stream.

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