Top "Filesystems" questions

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

How many bytes per inodes?

I need to create a very high number of files which are not very large (like 4kb,8kb). It's not …

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Search/Find a file and file content in Hadoop

I am currently working on a project using Hadoop DFS. I notice there is no search or find command in …

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How do you make symbolic links work with a remote mount?

I have two servers, A and B A has two filesystems, /alpha and /beta I have a symbolic link: ln …

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Node.js - File System get file type, solution around year 2012

I need to get the file type of a file with the help of node.js to set the content …

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What is the Unix command to create a hardlink to a directory in OS X?

How do you create a hardlink (as opposed to a symlink or a Mac OS alias) in OS X that …

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What is the difference between a directory and a folder?

Most people use the terms "folder" and "directory" interchangeably. From a programmer point of view, is there a difference, and …

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Safe to have multiple processes writing to the same file at the same time? [CentOs 6, ext4]

I'm building a system where multiple slave processes are communicating via unix domain sockets, and they are writing to the …

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How do I access a network drive through the usual System.IO classes?

My software handles multiple operations on files, and I have now finished writing the related functions, using the System.IO …

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What are the advantages of memory-mapped files?

I've been researching memory mapped files for a project and would appreciate any thoughts from people who have either used …

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How to overwrite a file with NSFileManager when copying?

I'm using this method to copy a file: [fileManager copyItemAtPath:sourcePath toPath:targetPath error:&error]; I want to overwrite …

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