While not heavily used, options available for UFS file systems can dramatically improve file system performance and stablility. In this week’s column, we’re going to take a look at how some of these ...

I have a 12GB file on one machine (UFS file system), and I need to transfer it to another, same OS, same file system. SFTP halts at exactly 2^31 - 1 bytes into the transfer (the 2GB limit on some file ...

People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

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 ...

Although the World Wide Web is a global network, it remains predominantly centralized in terms of data storage. Servers, whether physical or virtual, are housed in large server farms or cloud ...

Most of us have our fair share of digital debris. After all, with drives measured in one-million-million byte increments it’s tempting to never delete anything. The downside is you may never be able ...

Apple announced a new file system that will make its way into all of its OS variants (macOS, tvOS, iOS, watchOS) in the coming years. Media coverage to this point has been mostly breathless ...