Basically, it's important to seperate the /home, /usr, and / directories in case of corruption. This means a lot less to the average home user then it does in a corporate enviroment. / doesn't take ...

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 ...

Linux server admins must think carefully about which file system to choose -- XFS or ext4 -- based on each device's role and storage requirements. Desktop deployment and support personnel may find a ...

I'm formatting a 180 gb drive as a single partition. It is to be used for data storage and samba sharing. Most files will be fairly large (movies, isos, etc) but there will be smaller ones too (source ...

An initial request for comments (RFC) patch series was sent out this morning for BeamFS. The proposed BeamFS is a Reed-Solomon protected file-system. BeamFS was born out of the stalled FTRFS proposal ...

Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS. XMFS was presented this week at LPC 2026 in Czechia as ...