People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

There are four ways to specify that a file is in UNIX System Services when you use the FILENAME statement or FILENAME function: You can also use these specifications in combination. For example, you ...

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect. File permissions and ...

[1984 TOCS] FFS: A Fast File System for UNIX. [PDF] [1986 USENIX Summer] Vnodes: An Architecture for Multiple File System Types in Sun UNIX. [PDF] [1991 USENIX Winter] Extent−like Performance from a ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

Project Overview This project implements a Distributed File System (DFS) that combines core file system operations with a RESTful HTTP interface. The system enables efficient management of files and ...

While the average Unix user is generally satisfied by the date/time stamps that he sees when using the ls -l command, it is sometimes useful to remember that there are actually several time stamps ...