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 ...

XFS currently has to deal with two separate inode lifecycles which makes for complexity in inode lookups and reclaim. We also have the problem of not always having a linux inode around when it might ...

Download the PDF of this article. Linux supports a range of file systems, including ones used on other operating systems such as Windows FAT and NTFS. Those may be supported by embedded developers but ...

Summary of the problem: HTree's random relationship between directory entry order and inode order has been observed to cause increased cache pressure, affecting performance under certain conditions.