Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart ...

Prior to EXT4, in many distributions, EXT3 was the default file-system. It was mature and robust. At the same time, XFS often required a kernel compile, so it got less attention from end-users and ...

XFS is a 64-bit file system and, at least in theory, can handle file systems as large as 8 exabytes. This is incredibly large. One exabyte equals one million terabytes. Oracle currently supports ...

EXT4 - A revised file system based on EXT3 that removes the 64-bit limits and also adds other performance improvements over EXT3. XFS - A journaling file system designed for high performance that ...

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 ...

No such file or directory". So it looks like the filesystem's gotten corrupted somehow. Thing is, the last time I redid this system, I put XFS on it specifically to prevent this sort of thing.< ...

The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems. Among the improvements are an ...

For example, the XFS file system is the default one used by Redhat Enterprise and supports extended attributes, but would no longer be supported. As part of this announcement, Dropbox has updated ...