Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month. There's a video of the ...

Abstract: Existing persistent memory file systems exploit the fast, byte-addressable persistent memory (PM) to boost storage performance but ignore the limited endurance of PM. Particularly, the PM ...

Linux offers more security, privacy, and freedom from vendors. Modern Linux distros are user-friendly -- even for non-techies. Linux Mint, Zorin OS, MX Linux top beginner distro list. Get more ...

A huge chunk of Linux users are primarily software developers, enthusiasts, and people just getting started with Linux. A common piece of software these users need is a text editor to view, write, or ...

Abstract: Conventional journaling file systems, such as Ext4, guarantee data consistency by writing in-memory dirty inodes to block devices twice. The write back of inodes may contain up to 80% clean ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

You can use the stat command to view dates and times associated with Linux files, and the date command can do some handy conversions if you’d like to display the current time in the epoch format.

The debate, centered on the necessity of unique inode identifiers for file archiving, has seen Torvalds and the Google developer Steven Rostedt engaged in heated discussion. Despite Rostedt’s ...