Unix-like systems — and their users — tend to expect all filesystems to behave in the same way. But those users are also often interested in fancy new filesystems offering features that were never ...

Nick Piggin's VFS scalability patch set has been under development for well over one year. Linus was ready to pull this work during the 2.6.36 merge window, but Nick asked for more time for things to ...

Open data repositories are made public and can benefit more types of users in different application fields. As a result, the benefit of data exploration becomes increasingly more prominent. However, ...

It doesn’t take very much time working on a Unix system before your attention is drawn to the mysteries of the inode, especially these days with the concept of metadata getting so much public ...

A filesystem is a fundamental component of any operating system. It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved on a storage device. In the world of Linux, filesystems play a crucial ...