One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

An ex-Google engineer is developing a new file system for Linux, with the hopes that it can offer a speedier and more advanced way of storing data on servers. After a number of years of development, ...

Changes impacting storage are taking place at every layer of the network architecture: Disk drives are continuing on a Moore’s law-like cost/capacity curve, yet concurrently we are also seeing the ...

Some days, it doesn't rain, it pours. That's the case with Linux today. Not one, but two serious security holes have recently been exposed. First, there was a systemd bug which could easily knock out ...

HP on Monday is announcing the contribution of its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the Linux community, offering capabilities in uptime, security, and improved performance of ...

Linux-Windows dual boot systems don't have an easy way to access Linux files while booted into Windows. Some tools exist, but they don't offer perfect solutions. I've found using a shared partition ...

The tar command on Linux is used to create and extract TAR archive files. Run "tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/file” ...

An ex-Google engineer is developing a new file system for Linux, with the hopes that it can offer a speedier and more advanced way of storing data on servers. After a number of years of development, ...