It doesn’t take very much time working on a Unix system before your attention is drawn to the mysteries of the inode, especially these days with the concept of metadata getting so much public ...

It started with a phone call. Could we build a Linux box that would mount and read a DEC drive and make the data available to NT workstations via Samba? The answer was “I'll have to get back to you.” ...

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 ...