File Attributes

Any subset may be held within a particular directory structure :

• Basic Information :
  File Name : symbolic (text) name : unique to directory
  File type : text, binary, executable or another directory
  File Organisation : sequential, random etc
  Creator : program which created it - and can be used to open it (Mac's double-click)
• Address Information :
  Volume : disk drive, partition of disk etc
  Start Address : cylinder, track, block number etc
  Size Used and Allocated
• Access Control Information :
  Owner : Who control file (often the creator - NOT always!)
  Authentication : password
  Permitted Operations : read, write, delete etc
• Usage Information :
  Creation date and time
  Last modify date and time
  Last read date and time
  Archive date and time
  Expiry date : when the file will be deleted
  Access activity counts : number of reads, writes (used to control file system by system managers)

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