It started with a phone call. Could we build a Linux box that would mount and read a DEC drive and make the data available to NT workstations via Samba? The answer was “I'll have to get back to you.” ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of the stat function that takes an inode number ...

The old Unix file system can get decreasing performance because of fragmentation. File system defragmenters improve the performance by laying out all blocks of a file in a sequential order on disk, ...

i am currently taking an OS course and have run across this problem.<BR><BR>Assume a Unix System V FS where each inode has 10 direct blocks , 1 indirect block and 1 double indirect block.<BR>Disk ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...