发明名称 Extensible file system
摘要 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.
申请公布号 US9639554(B2) 申请公布日期 2017.05.02
申请号 US200511229485 申请日期 2005.09.16
申请人 Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC 发明人 Pudipeddi Ravisankar V.;Ghotge Vishal V.;Havewala Sarosh C.;Thind Ravinder S.;Zbikowski Mark J.
分类号 G06F17/30 主分类号 G06F17/30
代理机构 代理人 Lee Sunah;Choi Dan;Minhas Micky
主权项 1. A computing device comprising a file system and a computer readable storage medium that stores information within a volume on the computer readable storage medium, comprising: the volume, the volume comprising: a boot parameters component that specifies boot parameters for the file system;a file allocation table component containing a file allocation table associated with the file system; anda plurality of directory entries, each of the plurality of directory entries containing information designating the directory entry as either a primary directory entry or a secondary directory entry, each secondary directory entry being associated with a primary directory entry and defining metadata associated with the associated primary directory entry, each primary directory entry further containing information designating that primary directory entry as either a critical primary directory entry or a benign primary directory entry, and each secondary directory entry further containing information designating that secondary directory entry as either a critical secondary directory entry or a benign secondary directory entry; the file system, when enumerating directory entries during a process of mounting the volume, preventing the volume from being mounted if the file system does not recognize a critical primary directory entry; the file system, after the volume has been mounted, ignoring a benign primary directory entry if the file system does not recognize the benign primary directory entry; the file system, after the volume has been mounted, ignoring a critical secondary directory entry and the primary directory entry with which it is associated if the file system does not recognize the critical secondary directory entry; and the file system, after the volume has been mounted, ignoring a benign secondary directory entry if the file system does not recognize the benign secondary directory entry.
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