Prominent FOSS developer Russell Coker thinks the move by Fedora is a good thing. "I have great confidence in the ability of the ext3/4 developers and Red Hat employees to determine when a filesystem ...

Hi,<BR><BR>We are getting close to the 32k limit for number of files in a single folder on ext3 filesystem. We are just a few hundred shy of 32,000 databases on one mysql server. We are looking to ...

I'm crazy tired (70+ hours of work in 4 days).<BR><BR>I accidentally removed 3 key .ksp files from an ext3 file system. Don't worry I umounted the file system (/home) and then mounted it read only, so ...

New filesystem technology for Linux includes high capacity, snapshots, copy-on-write, and on-the-fly corruption detection. Almost exactly one year ago, as the developers were discussing changes to the ...

A powerful new filesystem for Linux already supports fast snapshots, checksums for all data, and online resizing–and plans to add ZFS-style built-in striping and mirroring. Chris Mason has recently ...

Logical Volume Management (LVM) is an abstraction layer over the hard drives, which allows the Linux kernel to access the filesystems normally, yet each filesystem may be comprised of multiple hard ...