Have you ever thought a particular project could be better if you could just control the file access directly? [Stavros Korokithakis] did, specifically for a backup program he was working on. What ...

While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue, for this project, the key issue is ...

The FS-Cache Project works with network filesystems like NFS to maintain a local on-disk cache of network files. The project is split into a kernel module (fscache) and a dæmon (cachefilesd), which ...

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.9 in the night from Sunday to Monday. With VDO, the latest incarnation of the kernel promises to save disk space and improve the performance of FUSE file systems. In ...