As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

Linux kernel version 2.6.30 has been released, adding support for new file systems, performance improvements, and new hardware drivers. The Linux kernel is the core used by GNU/Linux operating system ...

File systems, at the broadest of perspectives, have continually evolved functionally and dimensionally over the past several years. Once confined to disk drives and computer software applications that ...

File sharing is a fundamental aspect of networked computing, and in Linux environments, two of the most prevalent protocols facilitating this are NFS (Network File System) and Samba. This article aims ...

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, ...

Network-attached storage is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for file sharing on TCP/IP networks, as companies consolidate file storage on special-purpose file-server devices using such ...

Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes. They might be ...

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...