HP StorageWorks File Migration Agent V2.1 administrator guide (T4274-96105, October 2006)

File Migration Agent administrator guide 21
Data management
This section describes the lifecycle of files that are under control of the FMA.
Offline marker
To mark offline files (files with remote data), the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE flag is used. This file
attribute is officially supported in Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 or Windows 2003/R2. Files that
have this attribute set are considered offline.
Figure 4 Offline file attribute
Metadata
FMA metadata is stored in an NTFS extended attribute named _IFE_FILEINFO.
File state diagram
The following diagrams show the states of files managed by FMA.
Figure 5 State of files managed by FMA