Lack of access to your data in a new operating system may be one of the most severe impediments for doing an OS migration. There is little personal incentive for users to switch to a system that can't ...

Filesystems, like file cabinets or drawers, control how your operating system stores data. They also hold metadata like filetypes, what is attached to data, and who has access to that data. For ...

No more disk checks. Hopefully.

As a comparison, I ran my test script against a set of standard filesystems in the Linux kernel that most users will be familiar with. As well as being of general interest, it also gives a good range ...

The Linux Foundation is launching a new conference, Vault, to bring together the world’s leading developers in filesystems and storage in the Linux kernel with related projects to collaborate on ...

Also in today’s open source roundup: An introduction to Linux filesystems, and a Mac user considers switching to elementary OS Linux has been around for a long time now, and many of us take it for ...

Anyone who uses both Linux and Windows knows the problem. You need a couple of files that are on the Windows partition, but you forgot to copy them to a floppy or to the server before rebooting to ...

Container instances. Calling docker run on an OCI image results in the allocation of system resources to create a ...

New filesystem technology for Linux includes high capacity, snapshots, copy-on-write, and on-the-fly corruption detection. Almost exactly one year ago, as the developers were discussing changes to the ...