One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...
When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how a new file system should be coming to Macs (which it did, 11 years later). The ...
Another prodigy from Bell Labs, Peter Neumann worked from 1960 to 1970. During his stint, he had worked on the Multics team. Neumann was one of the main leads behind file system design and in ...