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- noun Alternative spelling of
file system .
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Examples
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As someone pointed out above, the hierarchical filesystem is just as much an abstraction as anything else — anyone old enough to remember partitioning a hard drive or the term “FAT corruption” can tell you that.
Matthew Yglesias » The End of Hierarchical File Systems 2010
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The filesystem is the most successful way we’ve ever dealt with these issues in the past.
Data portability and thinking ahead to 2008 | FactoryCity 2007
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This will reduce the cost of doing a snapshot from the cost of hashing the entire filesystem to about that of running a find1 over the filesystem, which is quite small.
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But one of the side effects of the Xandros install is that it uses unionfs for its filesystem, which is very common for Live CD installations.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Now a technology group called Pi has decoded the filesystem, which is an important step towards stripping out all of Microsoft's anti-customer technologies and turning the Xbox 360 into a general computing platform.
Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives 2005
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One of these measures is the filesystem, which is encrypted.
Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives 2005
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This will reduce the cost of doing a snapshot from the cost of hashing the entire filesystem to about that of running a find (1) over the filesystem, which is quite small.
Haddock Blogs alaric 2010
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This will reduce the cost of doing a snapshot from the cost of hashing the entire filesystem to about that of running a find (1) over the filesystem, which is quite small.
Haddock Blogs alaric 2010
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However, there's always a change the system will mis-identify a corrupt filesystem, which is presumably why O-P prefers the more precise command.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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However, there's always a change the system will mis-identify a corrupt filesystem, which is presumably why O-P prefers the more precise command.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009
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