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  2. ZIP (file format) - Wikipedia

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    The .ZIP file format was designed by Phil Katz of PKWARE and Gary Conway of Infinity Design Concepts. The format was created after Systems Enhancement Associates (SEA) filed a lawsuit against PKWARE claiming that the latter's archiving products, named PKARC, were derivatives of SEA's ARC archiving system. [3]

  3. List of archive formats - Wikipedia

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    Linux, macOS, Windows Genozip, a compressor for genomic file formats such as FASTQ, BAM, VCF and others. [4].gz application/gzip [5] gzip: Unix-like GNU Zip, the primary compression format used by Unix-like systems. The compression algorithm is Deflate, which combines LZSS with Huffman coding. .lz application/x-lzip lzip: Unix-like

  4. Comparison of file archivers - Wikipedia

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    File archivers Data compression Shell integration Password protection Multiple volumes Self extraction File repairing Batch conversion Unicode file / directory names [a] Encryption Filename Encryption 7-Zip: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes ALZip: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes [b] No Un­known Un­known Archive Manager: Yes Yes Yes Yes No ...

  5. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Wikipedia

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    Modern Linux distributions include a /sys directory as a virtual filesystem (sysfs, comparable to /proc, which is a procfs), which stores and allows modification of the devices connected to the system, [20] whereas many traditional Unix-like operating systems use /sys as a symbolic link to the kernel source tree.

  6. tar (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system of their own, such as devices that use magnetic tape.

  7. ext4 - Wikipedia

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    ext4 (fourth extended filesystem) is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3.. ext4 was initially a series of backward-compatible extensions to ext3, many of them originally developed by Cluster File Systems for the Lustre file system between 2003 and 2006, meant to extend storage limits and add other performance improvements. [4]

  8. Filesystem in Userspace - Wikipedia

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    MinFS [13] lets you mount a remote bucket (from a S3 compatible object store), as if it were a local directory. MooseFS: An open source distributed fault-tolerant file system available on every OS with FUSE implementation (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, OS X), able to store petabytes of data spread over several servers visible as one ...

  9. Self-extracting archive - Wikipedia

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    The self-extracting executable may need to be renamed to contain a file extension associated with the corresponding packer; archive file formats known to support this include ARJ [1] and ZIP. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Typically, self-extracting files for Microsoft operating systems such as DOS and Windows have a .exe extension, just like any other executable ...