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Revision as of 23:19, 21 January 2005 by Bagwill (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)An Alternate (or multiple) data stream is additional data associated with a file system object. It is implemented in the HFS and NTFS file systems. An example of data that might be stored as an alternate data stream:
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Under NTFS, the alternate data stream is accessed by referring to filename:streamname. All the data associated with a file system object are stored as attributes in the master file table.