Meta-data structure and handling
US5758360A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 2, 1996 |
| Grant date | May 26, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 2, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99956
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
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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