A little background: I'm pretty much a Linux newb. I've been trying out various distros on various machines trying to find something that works well for me. So far, not much success. I've been ...

Filesystems, like file cabinets or drawers, control how your operating system stores data. They also hold metadata like filetypes, what is attached to data, and who has access to that data. For ...

Thanks guys. For this particular use case, I really have to go with btrfs, because zfs is unfortunately not flexible enough. AFAIK it's the only file system that supports reflinks. xfs may get it soon ...

OpenSUSE 13.2 was released a week ago. As with the recent Fedora update, the latest release of openSUSE took a year to develop instead of the standard six months as the organization retooled its ...

The latest version of the Fedora Linux distribution is almost ready to go, and you can take Fedora 33 Beta for a spin starting today. Among other things, the latest version of Fedora for workstations ...

If you own a Synology network-attached storage device (NAS) and want to protect your valuable data from ransomware attacks, you might be interested in a new video published by SpaceRex. The video ...

The choice of file system matters quite a lot when it comes to storing data, especially when you're working with a lot of it. Your typical network-attached storage (NAS) may use EXT4 or BTRFS, and ...