In the realm of modern data management, few technologies hold as much promise and versatility as the ZFS file system. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris operating system, ZFS ...

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 ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

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, ...

With Linux having penetrated the enterprise computer room to the extent that it now runs on everything from the smallest x86 white box server to the largest mainframes, it should be no surprise that ...

Linux can support these workflows, but the experience is less uniform. Sandboxing can restrict access to external drives.

If you own a Raspberry Pi, you can start several operating systems from a single boot medium. All you need is a micro SD card ...

Linux provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them. Linux systems use a ...

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 and the forthcoming ...

The Linux 2.4 kernel is the first kernel the enterprise helped build, and it shows. Driven by the demands of enterprise customers, enterprise applications and intensive benchmarking (some of which was ...

Btrfs—short for “B-Tree File System” and frequently pronounced “butter” or “butter eff ess"—is the most advanced filesystem present in the mainline Linux kernel. In some ways, btrfs simply seeks to ...

CoreOS Container Linux is an open-source container operating system designed to support Kubernetes. The CoreOS flavor of container infrastructure management uses the Rocket or Docker container engine, ...