This approach avoids the write-twice penalty associated with physical journaling. Full copy-on-write file systems, such as ZFS and Btrfs, avoid in-place changes to file data by writing out the data in ...

Linux gaming has evolved and the success of the Steam Deck proves it. You can see games playable on Linux using ProtonDB.

Several existing file systems that work on Linux do include snapshot support, including bcachefs, ZFS, and Btrfs. However, ...

When it comes to bootloaders for Linux systems, two popular options are Grub and Systemd-boot. Each has its own set of ...

Linus Torvalds announced the seventh release candidate (RC7) of Linux Kernel version 6.11 on September 8, 2024.

However, according to Synology, you can now use the cache to store all of the Btrfs metadata, which should speed up file access and searching. Since building cache takes a long time, I'm hoping to ...

SSD: Faster solid-state drives with no moving parts. Different file systems (e.g., ext4, XFS, Btrfs) have varying performance characteristics. Choose the one that best suits your workload. RAID ...

pg_upgrade (formerly called pg_migrator) allows data stored in PostgreSQL data files to be upgraded to a later PostgreSQL major version without the data dump/restore ...

The big names mostly can't yet, but some lesser-known Linux distributions offer the ability to undo updates and recover from damage, even automatically. With a new version of Linux Mint available, a ...