June was sweltering, but the summer heat didn’t slow down open-source software developers. Last month delivered a wave of app ...

Learn how to permanently and securely delete files on Linux using shred, fstrim, secure-delete, and btrfs snapshot removal.

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...

In the previous two assignments, you made extensive use of a file system without actually worrying about how it was implemented underneath. For this last assignment, you will improve the ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Hi, Nikolai Khechumov is here. We all use software and hardware with many security mechanisms inside and don't notice ...

Abstract: Existing persistent memory file systems exploit the fast, byte-addressable persistent memory (PM) to boost storage performance but ignore the limited endurance of PM. Particularly, the PM ...

Abstract: Conventional journaling file systems, such as Ext4, guarantee data consistency by writing in-memory dirty inodes to block devices twice. The write back of inodes may contain up to 80% clean ...

If you're shopping for a desktop Linux PC, you've probably noticed that your options are much more limited than if you were shopping for a Windows 11 desktop. Linux PCs aren't nearly as common as the ...

The debate, centered on the necessity of unique inode identifiers for file archiving, has seen Torvalds and the Google developer Steven Rostedt engaged in heated discussion. Despite Rostedt’s ...