Oracle Corp. this week is releasing the underlying code to software it developed to allow databases to be better managed on clusters of Linux servers. The company on Wednesday plans to post online the ...

Almost lost in the clamor over Sun Microsystems Inc.’s expanded partnership with Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday was a small acquisition that will bolster Sun’s HPC storage offerings. Sun agreed to ...

As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

Linux exFAT performance gets a major boost in Linux 7.2 after kernel maintainer Namjae Jeon merged an IOmap conversion on ...

One soon-to-be-released incarnation of object-based storage is Lustre, an open-source file system that’s under development by Cluster File Systems Inc. in Mountain View, Calif. Lustre, which is short ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...