which #filesystems support #reflinks: on #Linux, Bcachefs, btrfs, XFS, OCFS2, but not OpenZFS; on FreeBSD, neither OpenZFS nor #ZFS; on Solaris, ZFS (with cp -z); on MacOS, APFS (which Apple is switching to; with cp -c or the clonefile system call), and on Microsoft Windows, NTFS and DUPLICATE_EXTENTS_TO_FILE.
#history of #Unix #filesystems and their reliability
on 02017-05-30a key-file mapping “NoFS” based on Facebook’s Haystack, but in Golang #filesystems
on 02017-01-04How CP/M #filesystems worked. It was not remotely FAT-compatible.
on 02017-01-03Another, shorter explanation of FAT #filesystems.
on 02017-01-03How FAT works. #filesystems
on 02017-01-03#paper on #filesystems with high #performance on NAND #Flash by using multiple channels
on 02016-10-10NOR #Flash transactional #filesystems #paper
on 02016-10-10How to keep your files from being corrupted by crashes of #filesystems. #persistence #software-design #Unix
on 02016-08-01Using #formalmethods (specifically #Coq and “Crash Hoare Logic”) to specify crash safety for #filesystems.
on 02015-08-23Run other #filesystems on top of #ZFS on Linux to get “snapshots, replication, deduplication, compression and advanced caching”, and also spanning across physical disks, too.
on 02015-08-10