The /opt file system is a relative newcomer to Unix file systems and is primarily used to house optional software packages. /tmp was and still is, of course, intended for temporary files.

The result was a system and a vision of computing that empowered, rather than replaced, its users. That's why, if you were able to do what I suggested yesterday: find people who had used either ...

IBM is upgrading the high end of its System p5 servers with dual-core Power5+ processors, which the company says will deliver a 25% performance gain over existing models — in part through ...

While the interface to HDFS is patterned after the UNIX file system, faithfulness to standards was sacrificed in favor of improved application performance. Abstract—The Hadoop Distributed File System ...