Family of Unix standards; Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 bases its access control list permission model on it.
Also called Portable Operating System Interface.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains POSIX in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- ADLS Gen2
Short for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2: a standard GPv2 account with hierarchical namespace turned on, so analytics workloads get true directories and POSIX-style ACLs.
- ACL
List of permissions set on a file or folder; examples include the POSIX-style lists in ADLS Gen2 and NTFS lists on Azure Files. Attribute conditions cannot be expressed in them.
Related terms
- Storage Blob Data Owner
Data-plane built-in role granting full control of blob data and containers, including setting blob index tags and POSIX ACLs.