IFS storage doubt......

Hi,
I am just going through the iFS documents. admin and config document discuss things like loading the files, starting and stopping the agents and ifssys oracle schema and ifs_ views on the database side. my doubt is , for eg, when u move a word document from the local drive to the iFS folder what exactly is happening?. is the file going to be stored in the designated directory in the unix box/nt shared drive. or the file is parsed and stored in some basic tables with blob/clob objects?. or the database tables with bfile col point to the file sytstem file?.
Thanks,
Palani.

The IFS folder is really a "view" of the Database. When the file is uploaded to the IFS Folder, it will be stored inside the Database.
Thank You
Brian

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