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 ...

Sandra Henry-Stocker was a programmer, Linux systems administrator, security engineer and Linux journalist for most of her 30-year career. She describes herself as "USL" (Unix as a second language ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the old command-line days, about the only way to write a CD-ROM on a Linux system was to know the set of commands that build an ISO filesystem and then copy it to a CD. Today, with the availability ...