NTFS Documentation: Index Allocation Attribute
Definition
This is the storage location for all sub-nodes of the B+ tree that implements an index (e.g. a directory). This file attribute is always non-resident.
It is simply a sequence of all index buffers that belong to the index.
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Last modified: Tue Jan 26 11:44:15 PST 1999