Introduction In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is ...

Using networked file systems is a common method for sharing disk space on UNIX-like systems, including Linux. Sun was the first to embrace this technology by introducing the Network File System (NFS), ...

Common operations (such as checking which files have been modified) would take multiple minutes. The company's solution was to develop Git Virtual File System (GVFS).

The Linux Virtual File System saves file metadata in a way that's different from the Windows NTFS approach. This metadata information gets lost when using Windows tools to alter Linux files.