It started with a phone call. Could we build a Linux box that would mount and read a DEC drive and make the data available to NT workstations via Samba? The answer was “I'll have to get back to you.” ...

Question, on a 2TB drive how much space is wasted by using normal amount of inodes instead of largefile or largefile4, I created my filesystems with normal but I only have files in the 100MB to 4GB ...

Writing filesystems, or any kernel code, is hard. The kernel is a complex environment to master, and small mistakes can cause severe data corruption. Filesystems, however, offer a clean data access ...