Some time ago I delegated rights to the desktop guys to create/delete computer objects on a 2003 domain. That domain has been upgraded to 2008. One of the guys began complaining that he cannot delete ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

Storage isn’t just storage. There is block storage, file storage and, more recently, object storage. And only two of those three are Posix-compliant. That’s not something most users ever need to know ...