Q: How do I NFS mount a filesystem on other Linux machines? A: NFS, or Network File System, is a technology that was introduced into the Unix world by Sun Microsystems. It allows a computer to mount a ...

SUN MICROSYSTEMS has much to answer for. In the early 1980s, the company wrote the most popular Unix operating system. It played a large part in creating TCP/IP, the technology that allowed the ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Media files now consume enormous amounts of storage, growing at a scale that has led to the ...

Changes impacting storage are taking place at every layer of the network architecture: Disk drives are continuing on a Moore’s law-like cost/capacity curve, yet concurrently we are also seeing the ...

File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

It has been a decade since the first version of the Network Data Management Protocol was launched as an effort to solve the problems posed by the backup and recovery of network file servers. Initial ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Media files now consume enormous amounts of storage, growing at a scale that has led to the ...

I have a friend who is trying to do transfer large files (multiple gigs) on a daily basis on a ‘wonky’ network. Wonky in the sense that the speed is variable and not always available. This means that ...

Here at Miami, we have a lot of systems running to keep the campus afloat. With those systems comes data and files that need to be stored. As one can imagine, with a footprint as big as Miami's, that ...