Top "Filesystems" questions

A file system is a way of organizing data on a computer system.

Best distributed filesystem for commodity linux storage farm

I have a lot of spare intel linux servers laying around (hundreds) and want to use them for a distributed …

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How can I get a writable path on the iPhone?

I am posting this question because I had a complete answer for this written out for another post, when I …

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How to mount one partition from an image file that contains multiple partitions on Linux?

The image file has a partition table, and it contains multiple partitions. loopback devices might be a possibility. Related threads: …

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File system that uses tags rather than folders?

My files are a mess, I try to structure them into folders with names that describe what they are in …

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Can I use a mask to iterate files in a directory with Boost?

I want to iterate over all files in a directory matching something like somefiles*.txt. Does boost::filesystem have something …

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Does Windows have Inode Numbers like Linux?

Does Windows have Inode Numbers like Linux? How does Windows internally manage files?

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change a file using node.js

I have a text file that looks like this: ./4F6cFLnAAFc.png ./4Flj9plmKGQ.png ./4fQeHtSdw80.png ./4I9iibPLdBw.png ./4…

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Distributed File Systems: GridFS vs. GlusterFS vs Ceph vs HekaFS Benchmarks

I am currently searching for a good distributed file system. It should: be open-source be horizontally scalable (replication and sharding) …

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How do I use filesystem functions in PHP, using UTF-8 strings?

I can't use mkdir to create folders with UTF-8 characters: <?php $dir_name = "Depósito"; mkdir($dir_name); ?> …

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What does 'git commit' mean when it says 'create mode ...' on stdout?

EDIT: See Danny Lin's git-store-meta as a proposed solution to the versioning-metadata problem described below. I have yet to test …

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