hierarchical file system meaning

• [Computer]
  <file system> A file system in which the files are organised into a hierarchy. The nodes of the hierarchy are called directories while the leaves are the files themselves.
  
  See also root directory. Compare flat file system.

• Move the wsbind file to a uss hfs hierarchical file system pickup directory on the target z os system
• Provides a platform-specific character used to separate directory levels in a path string that reflects a hierarchical file system organization
• Provides a platform-specific alternate character used to separate directory levels in a path string that reflects a hierarchical file system organization
• Also, Apple SOS supported a hierarchical file system ( HFS ).
• In a similar way, hierarchical file systems organize files in directories.
• Apple introduced Hierarchical File System as a replacement for MFS in September 1985.
• OS 2200 does not have a hierarchical file system as do most other operating systems.
• Unix also popularized the hierarchical file system with arbitrarily nested subdirectories, originally introduced by Multics.
• Multics was the first operating system to provide a hierarchical file system, and file names could be of almost arbitrary length and syntax.
• Except for hierarchical file systems ( which some consider a form of database ), navigational techniques fell out of favor by the 1980s.

• "hierarchical file system" meaning in Chinese: 分层文件系统，层次文件系统
• "hierarchical file system" meaning in Japanese: 《コ》階層型｛かいそう がた｝ファイル?システム◆Macintosh が採用している◆【略】HFS
• "hierarchical file system" meaning in Russian: иерархическая файловая система