Brennan, font designer and (now regretful) founder of 8chan, wrote to the filesystem's creator, Hans Reiser, asking if he wanted to reply to the discussion on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML).

In theory, it should behave as a normal filesystem cache does. When your system needs more RAM, the ARC should release RAM to it as necessary. In practice, large memory allocation requests—such ...

Suddenly you’re dealing with multiple files and want access on a computer so a real filesystem is in order. FAT is easy, so the card grows a FAT filesystem. Everything is great, but you start ...

Want to relax and unwind after setting up your NAS? Store all your data using ZFS, and you'll have access to snapshots, a ...

macOS and some apps may keep small temporary files in the locations /private/var/tmp and /private/tmp. Most of these can be ...

Discover the benefits of the /usr merge in Linux. Learn why putting files under /usr simplifies things and improves compatibility for users.

Modern kernels (2.6.13 and later) have filesystem notifications in the form of an interface called inotify. You can use these calls programmatically with the sys/inotify.h header file.

This article describes how to implement another technique, an encrypted root filesystem. I discuss the GNU/Linux boot process and software requirements, present some instructions, introduce Open ...

The libferris Project began in early 2001 in order to create a virtual filesystem operating as a shared library. Many tree-like structures are presented through a single filesystem interface by ...

Filesystem ACLs are extremely handy in that they allow you to extend access controls to files and directories beyond the simple user/group/other ownership. With extended ACLs, you can assign ...