In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...

Hoarding data using commodity storage servers is “cheap and cheerful,” as the phrase goes. But finding that data and managing it is another matter entirely, and the problem gets worse as the number of ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...