Server and supercomputer firm, SGI, has offered its journaled file system, XFS, to the Linux community under open source guidelines. SGI says the adoption of its file system will push Linux forward as a platform for enterprise-class applications.
Technically, what will be included in Longhorn is not an entirely new file system, since the files themselves are still stored on the disk using a derivative of Windows' current NTFS file system. Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on...
The creation time is established when a file is first created on the file system; when a picture begins to be downloaded from a website, when a document is first opened, when a file is extracted from an archive - but also when the file is moved...
Microsoft surprised developers on Monday by releasing a test version of a new Windows file system. The software giant had originally planned to release WinFS - which it said would make for better desktop file searching - as part of the next version...
Essentially, "self-healing" means Microsoft's defrag and chkdsk, or check disk, tools are running in the background. Users who want more advanced disk maintenance will still want to purchase third party tools, according to Microsoft.
An example of the first kind of virtualisation is partitioning a PC disk into smaller virtual drives, while an example of the second is combining a number of separate disks to make them appear as one physical disk (as in a storage network).
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