Hi all, I spent last week analyzing a client's corrupted ext3 image to see if I could determine what had gone wrong and caused the filesystem to blow apart. As best as I could tell, a data block got ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

Summary of the problem: HTree's random relationship between directory entry order and inode order has been observed to cause increased cache pressure, affecting performance under certain conditions.