After getting delayed a couple of days, the Linux 3.8 kernel is all polished and ready to go, Linus Torvalds announced. The big new feature in the 3.8 kernel is F2FS (Flash-Friendly File system), a ...

Parallel reads and writes across multiple servers. Parallel NFSv4.2 with FlexFiles splits file data across multiple servers, allowing clients to access data in parallel. When coupled with N-Connect, ...

One of the good things about Linux is that it supports so much old hardware. With just a bit of work, there's almost no computing hardware that can't run Linux. That's the good news. The bad news is ...

BOSTON - At the Linux Foundation's new Vault show, it's all about file systems and storage. You might think that there's nothing new to say about either topic, but you'd be wrong. To deal with this, ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced the appointment of Mike Snitzer, a long-time leader in the Linux kernel community, as ...

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Disk quotas are a mechanism for limiting the amount of disk space and the number of files (inodes) that a user or a group of users can consume. These limits prevent individual users or services from ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, announces the significant contributions Hammerspace has made to the Linux kernel, transforming standard ...