Linux server admins must think carefully about which file system to choose -- XFS or ext4 -- based on each device's role and storage requirements. Desktop deployment and support personnel may find a ...

So a couple people (drag, I think?) labeled XFS as particularly "robust" and fast and, presumably, awesome. OK. This is not an argument, this is a question: if it's more robust than ext4, why are we ...

A couple of weeks ago my curiosity turned a light working weekend into a full on charge in exploring the ins and outs of NAS server file systems. While testing the Crucial RealSSD C300, we moved away ...

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.0 on April 12, 2026, bumping the major version number for the first time since the 6.0 launch in October 2022. The new kernel ships with autonomous XFS filesystem ...

A split-second race inside the Linux kernel was all it took to turn a routine filesystem copy-on-write operation into a serious privilege escalation. Linux systems using the XFS filesystem suffer from ...

When it was first launched in 2009, the Btrfs file system had a promising future. Many expected Btrfs to replace ZFS, a file system that hadn't made it into the Linux operating system for legal ...