A small amount of descriptive data (metadata) that is added to a computer file by the user or network administrator. It is maintained by the file system but is not part of the file's regular set of ...

ACLs, or Access Control Lists, are available for a variety of Linux filesystems including ext2, ext3, and XFS. With XFS, ACL support is available pretty much “out of the box” and with ext2/ext3, it’s ...

Download the PDF of this article. Linux supports a range of file systems, including ones used on other operating systems such as Windows FAT and NTFS. Those may be supported by embedded developers but ...

What it is: Omneon Video Networks' Extended File System is a new feature of the company's networked content server that allows servers to connect with each other and share files. The EFS functionality ...