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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Quantcast File System (QFS)</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Sriram Rao, Michael Ovsiannikov, <a href="Quantcast" title="Quantcast">Quantcast</a></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">2.2.6
/ May 6, 2023<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2023-05-06</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Distributed_file_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Distributed file system">Distributed File System</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Apache_License" title="Apache License">Apache License</a> 2.0</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/quantcast/qfs">github<wbr>.com<wbr>/quantcast<wbr>/qfs</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Quantcast File System</b> (<b>QFS</b>) is an open-source <a href="Distributed_file_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Distributed file system">distributed file system</a> software package for large-scale <a href="MapReduce" title="MapReduce">MapReduce</a> or other batch-processing workloads. It was designed as an alternative to the <a href="Apache_Hadoop" title="Apache Hadoop">Apache Hadoop</a> Distributed File System (<a href="Apache_Hadoop#HDFS" title="Apache Hadoop">HDFS</a>), intended to deliver better performance and cost-efficiency for large-scale processing clusters.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design">Design</h2></div>
<p>QFS is software that runs on a cluster of hundreds or thousands of commodity <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> servers and allows other software layers to interact with them as if they were one giant hard drive. It has three components:
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<ul><li>A chunk server runs on each machine that will host data, manages I/O to its hard drives, and monitors its activity and capacity.</li>
<li>A central process called the metaserver keeps the directory structure and maps of files to physical storage. It coordinates activities of all the chunk servers and monitors the overall health of the file system. For high performance it holds all its data in memory, writing checkpoints and transaction logs to disk for recovery.</li>
<li>A client component is the interface point that presents a file system <a href="Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">application programming interface</a> (API) to other layers of the software. It makes requests of the metaserver to identify which chunk servers hold (or will hold) its data, then interacts with the chunk servers directly to read and write.</li></ul>
<p>In a cluster of hundreds or thousands of machines, the odds are low that all will be running and reachable at any given moment, so fault tolerance is the central design challenge. QFS meets it with <a href="Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction" title="Reed–Solomon error correction">Reed–Solomon error correction</a>. The form of Reed–Solomon encoding used in QFS stores redundant data in nine places and can reconstruct the file from any six of these stripes.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When it writes a file, it by default stripes it across nine physically different machines — six holding the data, three holding parity information. Any three of those can become unavailable. If any six remain readable, QFS can reconstruct the original data. The result is fault tolerance at a cost of a 50% expansion of data.
</p><p>QFS is written in the programming language <a href="C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a>, operates within a fixed <a href="Memory_footprint" title="Memory footprint">memory footprint</a>, and uses direct input and output (I/O).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>QFS evolved from the Kosmos File System (KFS), an open source project started by <a href="Kosmix" class="mw-redirect" title="Kosmix">Kosmix</a> in 2005. <a href="Quantcast" title="Quantcast">Quantcast</a> adopted KFS in 2007, built its own improvements on it over the next several years, and released QFS 1.0 as an open source project in September, 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<li>EFS
<ul><li><a href="Encrypting_File_System" title="Encrypting File System">Encrypting File System</a></li>
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<li><a href="Episode_filesystem" title="Episode filesystem">Episode</a></li>
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<li><a href="Files-11" title="Files-11">Files-11</a></li>
<li><a href="Fossil_(file_system)" title="Fossil (file system)">Fossil</a></li>
<li><a href="GPFS" title="GPFS">GPFS</a></li>
<li><a href="HAMMER_(file_system)" title="HAMMER (file system)">HAMMER</a>
<ul><li><a href="HAMMER2" title="HAMMER2">HAMMER2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Hierarchical_File_System_(Apple)" title="Hierarchical File System (Apple)">HFS</a> (<a href="Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">Classic Mac OS</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Hierarchical_File_System_(IBM_MVS)" title="Hierarchical File System (IBM MVS)">HFS</a> (<a href="MVS" title="MVS">MVS</a>)</li>
<li><a href="HFS_Plus" title="HFS Plus">HFS+</a></li>
<li><a href="High_Performance_File_System" title="High Performance File System">HPFS</a></li>
<li><a href="High_Throughput_File_System" title="High Throughput File System">HTFS</a></li>
<li><a href="JFS_(file_system)" title="JFS (file system)">JFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Log-structured_File_System_(BSD)" title="Log-structured File System (BSD)">LFS</a></li>
<li>MFS
<ul><li><a href="Macintosh_File_System" title="Macintosh File System">Macintosh File System</a></li>
<li><a href="TiVo_Media_File_System" title="TiVo Media File System">TiVo Media File System</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="MINIX_file_system" title="MINIX file system">MINIX</a></li>
<li><a href="NetWare_File_System" title="NetWare File System">NetWare File System</a></li>
<li><a href="Next3" title="Next3">Next3</a></li>
<li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS</a>
<ul><li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Novell_Storage_Services" title="Novell Storage Services">NSS</a></li>
<li><a href="NTFS" title="NTFS">NTFS</a></li>
<li><a href="OneFS_distributed_file_system" title="OneFS distributed file system">OneFS</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenZFS" title="OpenZFS">OpenZFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Professional_File_System" title="Professional File System">PFS</a></li>
<li><a href="QFS" title="QFS">QFS</a></li>
<li><a href="QNX4FS" title="QNX4FS">QNX4FS</a></li>
<li><a href="ReFS" title="ReFS">ReFS</a></li>
<li><a href="ReiserFS" title="ReiserFS">ReiserFS</a>
<ul><li><a href="Reiser4" title="Reiser4">Reiser4</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Datalight#Reliance_family" title="Datalight">Reliance</a></li>
<li><a href="Datalight#Reliance_Nitro" title="Datalight">Reliance Nitro</a></li>
<li><a href="Remote_File_Sharing" title="Remote File Sharing">RFS</a></li>
<li>SFS
<ul><li>Shared File System (<a href="VM_(operating_system)" title="VM (operating system)">VM</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Smart_File_System" title="Smart File System">Smart File System</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="StorNext_File_System" title="StorNext File System">SNFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Soup_(Apple)" title="Soup (Apple)">Soup (Apple)</a></li>
<li><a href="Tux3" title="Tux3">Tux3</a></li>
<li><a href="UBIFS" title="UBIFS">UBIFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Unix_File_System" title="Unix File System">UFS/UFS2</a>
<ul><li><a href="Soft_updates" title="Soft updates">soft updates</a></li>
<li><a href="Write_Ahead_Physical_Block_Logging" title="Write Ahead Physical Block Logging">WAPBL</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Veritas_File_System" title="Veritas File System">VxFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Write_Anywhere_File_Layout" title="Write Anywhere File Layout">WAFL</a></li>
<li><a href="Xiafs" title="Xiafs">Xiafs</a></li>
<li><a href="XFS" title="XFS">XFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Xsan" title="Xsan">Xsan</a></li>
<li><a href="ZFS_(z/OS_file_system)" title="ZFS (z/OS file system)">zFS</a> (<a href="Z/OS" title="Z/OS">z/OS</a>)</li>
<li><a href="ZFS" title="ZFS">ZFS</a> (<a href="Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun</a>)</li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">Optical disc</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="High_Sierra_Format" class="mw-redirect" title="High Sierra Format">HSF</a></li>
<li><a href="ISO_9660" title="ISO 9660">ISO 9660</a></li>
<li><a href="ISO_13490" title="ISO 13490">ISO 13490</a></li>
<li><a href="Universal_Disk_Format" title="Universal Disk Format">UDF</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">Flash memory</a> and <a href="Solid-state_drive" title="Solid-state drive">SSD</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Apple_File_System" title="Apple File System">APFS</a></li>
<li><a href="File_Allocation_Table" title="File Allocation Table">FAT</a></li>
<li><a href="ExFAT" title="ExFAT">exFAT</a></li>
<li><a href="Transaction-Safe_FAT_File_System" title="Transaction-Safe FAT File System">TFAT</a></li>
<li><a href="EROFS" title="EROFS">EROFS</a></li>
<li><a href="F2FS" title="F2FS">F2FS</a></li>
<li><a href="JFS_(file_system)" title="JFS (file system)">JFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Non-Volatile_File_System" title="Non-Volatile File System">NVFS</a></li></ul>
</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="host-side_wear_leveling27" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">host-side <a href="Wear_leveling" title="Wear leveling">wear leveling</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="CHFS" title="CHFS">CHFS</a></li>
<li><a href="JFFS" title="JFFS">JFFS</a></li>
<li><a href="JFFS2" title="JFFS2">JFFS2</a></li>
<li><a href="LogFS" title="LogFS">LogFS</a></li>
<li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS</a>
<ul><li><a href="NILFS" title="NILFS">NILFS2</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="YAFFS" title="YAFFS">YAFFS</a></li>
<li><a href="UBIFS" title="UBIFS">UBIFS</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Clustered_file_system#Distributed_file_systems" title="Clustered file system">Distributed parallel</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="BeeGFS" title="BeeGFS">BeeGFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Ceph_(software)" title="Ceph (software)">Ceph</a></li>
<li><a href="CXFS" title="CXFS">CXFS</a></li>
<li><a href="GFS2" title="GFS2">GFS2</a></li>
<li><a href="Google_File_System" title="Google File System">Google File System</a></li>
<li><a href="OCFS2" title="OCFS2">OCFS2</a></li>
<li><a href="OrangeFS" title="OrangeFS">OrangeFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallel_Virtual_File_System" title="Parallel Virtual File System">PVFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Xsan" title="Xsan">Xsan</a></li>
<li><i><a href="List_of_file_systems#Distributed_parallel_file_systems" title="List of file systems">more...</a></i></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Network-attached_storage" title="Network-attached storage">NAS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="9P_(protocol)" title="9P (protocol)">9P</a></li>
<li><a href="Andrew_File_System" title="Andrew File System">AFS</a> (<a href="OpenAFS" title="OpenAFS">OpenAFS</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Apple_Filing_Protocol" title="Apple Filing Protocol">AFP</a></li>
<li><a href="Coda_(file_system)" title="Coda (file system)">Coda</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_File_System_(Microsoft)" title="Distributed File System (Microsoft)">DFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Google_File_System" title="Google File System">Google File System</a></li>
<li><a href="GPFS" title="GPFS">GPFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Lustre_(file_system)" title="Lustre (file system)">Lustre</a></li>
<li><a href="NetWare_Core_Protocol" title="NetWare Core Protocol">NCP</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_File_System" title="Network File System">NFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Elliptics" title="Elliptics">POHMELFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Apache_Hadoop" title="Apache Hadoop">Hadoop</a></li>
<li><a href="Server_Message_Block" title="Server Message Block">SMB (CIFS)</a></li>
<li><a href="SSHFS" title="SSHFS">SSHFS</a></li>
<li><i><a href="List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems" title="List of file systems">more...</a></i></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specialized</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Aufs" title="Aufs">Aufs</a></li>
<li><a href="AXFS" title="AXFS">AXFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Boot_File_System" title="Boot File System">Boot File System</a></li>
<li><a href="Compact_Disc_File_System" title="Compact Disc File System">Compact Disc File System</a></li>
<li><a href="Cramfs" title="Cramfs">cramfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Davfs2" title="Davfs2">Davfs2</a></li>
<li><a href="EROFS" title="EROFS">EROFS</a></li>
<li><a href="FTPFS" title="FTPFS">FTPFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Filesystem_in_Userspace" title="Filesystem in Userspace">FUSE</a></li>
<li><a href="Lnfs" title="Lnfs">Lnfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Linear_Tape_File_System" title="Linear Tape File System">LTFS</a></li>
<li><a href="NOVA_(filesystem)" title="NOVA (filesystem)">NOVA</a></li>
<li><a href="Rational_MultiVersion_File_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Rational MultiVersion File System">MVFS</a></li>
<li><a href="SquashFS" title="SquashFS">SquashFS</a></li>
<li><a href="FAT_filesystem_and_Linux" title="FAT filesystem and Linux">UMSDOS</a></li>
<li><a href="OverlayFS" title="OverlayFS">OverlayFS</a></li>
<li><a href="UnionFS" title="UnionFS">UnionFS</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pseudo</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Configfs" title="Configfs">configfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Device_file" title="Device file">devfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Debugfs" title="Debugfs">debugfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Kernfs_(BSD)" title="Kernfs (BSD)">kernfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Procfs" title="Procfs">procfs</a></li>
<li>specfs</li>
<li><a href="Sysfs" title="Sysfs">sysfs</a></li>
<li><a href="Tmpfs" title="Tmpfs">tmpfs</a></li>
<li><a href="WinFS" title="WinFS">WinFS</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Encrypted</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="ECryptfs" title="ECryptfs">eCryptfs</a></li>
<li><a href="EncFS" title="EncFS">EncFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Encrypting_File_System" title="Encrypting File System">EFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Rubberhose_(file_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubberhose (file system)">Rubberhose</a></li>
<li><a href="SSHFS" title="SSHFS">SSHFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Oracle_ZFS" title="Oracle ZFS">ZFS</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Clustered_file_system" title="Clustered file system">Clustered</a>
<ul><li><a href="Global_file_system" title="Global file system">Global</a></li>
<li><a href="Grid_file_system" title="Grid file system">Grid</a></li>
<li><a href="Self-certifying_File_System" title="Self-certifying File System">Self-certifying</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Flash_file_system" title="Flash file system">Flash</a></li>
<li><a href="Journaling_file_system" title="Journaling file system">Journaling</a></li>
<li><a href="Log-structured_file_system" title="Log-structured file system">Log-structured</a></li>
<li><a href="Object_storage" title="Object storage">Object</a></li>
<li><a href="Record-oriented_filesystem" title="Record-oriented filesystem">Record-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Semantic_file_system" title="Semantic file system">Semantic</a></li>
<li><a href="Steganographic_file_system" title="Steganographic file system">Steganographic</a></li>
<li><a href="Synthetic_file_system" title="Synthetic file system">Synthetic</a></li>
<li><a href="Versioning_file_system" title="Versioning file system">Versioning</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Features</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Case_preservation" title="Case preservation">Case preservation</a></li>
<li><a href="Copy-on-write" title="Copy-on-write">Copy-on-write</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_deduplication" title="Data deduplication">Data deduplication</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_scrubbing" title="Data scrubbing">Data scrubbing</a></li>
<li><a href="Execute_in_place" title="Execute in place">Execute in place</a></li>
<li><a href="Extent_(file_systems)" title="Extent (file systems)">Extent</a></li>
<li><a href="File_attribute" title="File attribute">File attribute</a>
<ul><li><a href="Extended_file_attributes" title="Extended file attributes">Extended file attributes</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="File_change_log" title="File change log">File change log</a></li>
<li><a href="Fork_(file_system)" title="Fork (file system)">Fork</a></li>
<li><a href="Inode" title="Inode">Inode</a></li>
<li>Links
<ul><li><a href="Hard_link" title="Hard link">Hard</a></li>
<li><a href="Symbolic_link" title="Symbolic link">Symbolic</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_access_control" title="Computer access control">Access control</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Access-control_list" title="Access-control list">Access-control list</a></li>
<li><a href="Filesystem-level_encryption" title="Filesystem-level encryption">Filesystem-level encryption</a></li>
<li><a href="File-system_permissions" title="File-system permissions">Permissions</a>
<ul><li><a href="Chmod" title="Chmod">Modes</a></li>
<li><a href="Sticky_bit" title="Sticky bit">Sticky bit</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Interface_(computing)" title="Interface (computing)">Interfaces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="File_manager" title="File manager">File manager</a></li>
<li><a href="File_system_API" title="File system API">File system API</a>
<ul><li><a href="Installable_File_System" title="Installable File System">Installable File System</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_file_system" title="Virtual file system">Virtual file system</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_file_systems" title="List of file systems">Lists</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="List_of_cryptographic_file_systems" title="List of cryptographic file systems">Cryptographic</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_default_file_systems" title="List of default file systems">Default</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_log-structured_file_systems" title="List of log-structured file systems">Log-structured</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Layouts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Master_Boot_Record" class="mw-redirect" title="Master Boot Record">Master Boot Record</a></li>
<li><a href="GUID_Partition_Table" title="GUID Partition Table">GUID Partition Table</a></li>
<li><a href="Apple_Partition_Map" title="Apple Partition Map">Apple Partition Map</a></li></ul>
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