File systems have been around for as long as computers have been invented. Over the past 40 years, what used to be a little invention on a thinking machine has grown into an enormous industry with ...

Designing distributed file systems that maintain POSIX-compatibility is a challenging task, often requiring tradeoffs to be made. GFS introduced a decoupled architecture comprising a master, ...

It's the day after Independence Day in the US, and much of our staff is just returning to their preferred work machines. If this was 1997 instead of 2018, that would mean booting up BeOS for some. The ...

If you've used a Windows computer, you've likely encountered the NTFS, exFAT, and FAT32 file systems, even if you didn't know it. While most people don't really have to engage with these systems ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...