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Mint KDE 17 is finally released!

Sure there are technical forums that discuss btrfs, the shiny new filesystem for Linux but my experience has shown that FReepers meet or exceed the technical expertise anywhere on the net. The two cutting-edge filesystems that are (supposedly) impervious to bitrot are btrfs and zfs (which has a Linux implementation, older than what Oracle has now closed off).

I was directed to a recent mailing list post by Linus Torvalds on linux-fsdevel in which he derided the concept of user-space filesystems. Not a particular implementation, mind you, but the very concept of it. Jeff Darcy, of Red Hat and CloudFS fame, wrote a wonderful response, which you should read first before continuing further.From my perspective, as the creator of GlusterFS, Linus is rather blinkered on this issue. The fact is, user space advantages far outweigh kernel space advantages. You’ll notice that Linus pointed to no benchmarks or studies confirming his opinion, he merely presented his bias as if...

The world is awash in data. This fact is putting more and more pressure on file systems to efficiently scale to handle increasingly large amounts of data. Recently, Ric Wheeler from Redhat experimented with putting 1 Billion files in a single file system to understand what problems/issues the Linux community might face in the future. Let’s see what happened… Awash in a sea of dataNo one is going to argue that the amount of data we generate and want to keep is growing at an unprecedented rate. In a 2008 article blogger Dave Raffo highlighted some statistics from an IDC...