COW snapshots are an important feature in modern OSes – the FreeBSD folks are justly proud of their built-in native support ...

Lack of access to your data in a new operating system may be one of the most severe impediments for doing an OS migration. There is little personal incentive for users to switch to a system that can't ...

With the falling cost of 32-bit processors containing a memory management unit (MMU), Flash memory and SDRAM, a new class of embedded devices is evolving in the networking, internet appliance and PDA ...

I've actually heard of Paragon before (unfortunately). They make an HFS+ driver for Windows, which was really useful until after about 10 minutes when it irreparably corrupted the filesystem on the ...

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 ...

Being a *nix newbie, I'm interested in trying just about everything I can. I'm wondering if I could run another *nix kernel, such as FreeBSD, from the same filesystem as my Linux system. I know the ...