Alchemi Data Management Inc., a leading provider of data security and compliance services, today announced it was awarded a ...

The superblock is typically the highest-level data structure for a file system. The BFS superblock describes the physical disk, the journal area, and indexing. For obvious performance reasons ...

This directory contains runtime data, some system logs, process IDs, and temp files. You will most likely never touch this directory (nor should you). The srv directory houses data for services ...

It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved ... More precisely, a filesystem manages the following: An inode (index node) is a data structure that stores information about a file or ...

Applications command the OS to input and output data, and the file system reads and writes the sectors on the storage drive. The file system manages the folder/directory structure and provides an ...

You can store all types of structured, semi-structure, and unstructured data within the Hadoop Distributed File System, and process it in a variety of ways using Hive, HBase, Spark, and many other ...