Linux can support these workflows, but the experience is less uniform. Sandboxing can restrict access to external drives.

One of the good things about Linux is that it supports so much old hardware. With just a bit of work, there's almost no computing hardware that can't run Linux. That's the good news. The bad news is ...

The fundamental problem is that unless your OS vendor coordinates ZFS updates with kernel updates, the burden falls on you to ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Linux is widely agreed to be key to the onward development of computational storage. As we have noted before, ...

The evolution of computing has been marked by a series of paradigm shifts, from mainframes to personal computers, and now to the cloud. Currently, the common path to deploying web infrastructure is to ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, announces the significant contributions Hammerspace has made to the Linux kernel, transforming standard ...

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

Logs, databases, and caches grow under /var. Learn why Linux admins monitor the /var directory to prevent disk issues and service failures.

Linux users have long depended on two options to interact with NTFS volumes: the old in-kernel ntfs driver, which has been ...