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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, August 17, 2003 10:28:11 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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For example, a FileAllocationTable is MetaData. The 'control' file in a [DebianLinux] .[Deb] is MetaData.
The Journal in a [JournaledFileSystem|JournaledFileSystems] is MetaData and it is though the cunning using of this MetaData that such FileSystems get their edge.
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+In the field of Information Retrieval, MetaData refers to data about a document. For example, the Title, Author, Date, etc are all MetaData about the actual document. Bibliographic records help look-up based on MetaData.
