A high-performance, write-intensive file system is ideal for databases and file servers for larger files (such as media). Supports large file systems (up to 16 exabytes) and includes features like ...

Writing filesystems, or any kernel code, is hard. The kernel is a complex environment to master, and small mistakes can cause severe data corruption. Filesystems, however, offer a clean data access ...

Linux Permission Basics: Read, Write, Execute Each file and directory in Linux has three basic types of permissions: Read (r) – Permission to view the contents of a file or list the contents of a ...

You might, for example, use lseek to set a file position and just write something at the end so the file was preloaded. Before Linux 2.6.19, you had to call msync to make sure the file wrote to ...

One difference between these shells with respect to user-defined file descriptors, however, is that the Korn shell (on Solaris anyway) only allows us to assign file descriptors 0 through 9 while ...