Extensible file system
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRavisankar V. Pudipeddi, Vishal V. Ghotge, Sarosh C. Havewala
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Abstract
An extensible file system format for portable storage media is provided. The extensible file system format includes the specification of primary and secondary directory entry types that may be custom defined. The primary and secondary directory entry types can be further classified as critical and benign directory entries.
Claims20
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for storing data, the computer-readable components comprising:
- a file allocation table component for defining a file allocation table associated with a file system;
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- a primary directory entry component for specifying data in a root directory of the file system, wherein the primary directory entry includes a type code for processing the primary directory entry.
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for storing data, the computer-readable components comprising:
- a file allocation table component for defining a file allocation table associated with the file system;
- means for specifying data in a root directory of the file system and meta data associated with data in the root directory;
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- means for specifying a type code for processing the data in the root directory of the file system.
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components for storing data, the computer-readable components comprising:
- a file allocation table component for defining a file allocation table associated with the file system;
- a root directory component for specifying data in a root directory of the file system, wherein the root directory component is associated with a type code for processing the root directory component;
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- at least extensible one meta data component corresponding to the root directory entry component and defining meta data associated with the root directory component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.