With AI data centers swallowing the world's entire supply of memory chips, both DRAM and NAND are now in a severe shortage, ...

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 ...

zfs create -o acltype=posixacl -o xattr=sa -o atime=off -o compression=lz4 -o quota=18T -o mountpoint=/[redacted] -o encryption=aes-256-gcm \ -o keyformat=passphrase ...

The latest version of the Fedora Linux distribution is almost ready to go, and you can take Fedora 33 Beta for a spin starting today. Among other things, the latest version of Fedora for workstations ...

In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...

Oracle has updated the kernel of its Linux distribution to take advantage of the latest Linux advances, the company announced Tuesday. It also previewed a number of new features, including a module ...

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 ...

File systems are one of those things that typical end users don’t think much about. Apparently, [seaQueue] isn’t a typical end user. He’s posted some instructions on how to run an alternate file ...

Does ZFS support using random, differently-sized drives nowadays? Or converting between different RAID-profiles on-the-fly? Increasing or decreasing the number of drives in the array? I'm not trying ...