A File Server is a DODS accessible inventory of the files in a multi-file data set.

• At a minimum the File Server contains two columns (or groups of columns) of information:
  
  
  • A column of URLs, one for each file in a data set, and
    
    
  • One or more columns for the information that is required to distinquish between the files in the data set, often time.
    
    
• The variables in the File Server are an example of the sequence data type.
  
  
• The data in a File Server can also be constrained.