Free File Systems for Linux

fuse-zip is an open source and free command-line utility that provides a FUSE-based filesystem, which can be easily used to mount ZIP archives with read/write support under Linux kernel-based operating systems.Implemented in C++, based on libzipfuse-zip...

GNU Parted is an open source command-line software that can be used to resize, destroy, copy, create, and check hard disk (HDD) partitions, and the file systems on them.GNU Parted is useful if you want to create free space for new operating systems,...

fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification.fio supports for 4 different types of I/O engines: sync, mmap, libaio, posixaio, rate I/O, I/O priorities, forked or threaded jobs, and much more.Options: fio-s...

Parrot and Chirp are open source user-level tools specially designed for rapid deployment for wide area file systems.The cctools package from the download are contains Parrot, Chirp, Work Queue, Makeflow, SAND, and other tools. What is new in this...

Gfarm file system is a next-generation network shared file system.Gfarm file system will be an alternative solution of NFS, and will meet a demand for much larger, much reliable, and much faster file system.What is new in this release:This version adds an...

XtreemFS is a software that implements striping of files over several storage servers for increased I/O bandwidth and capacity. This is similar to RAID0. Paralell I/O ensures that read/write operations are executed in parallel on the storage servers to...

unionfs-fuse is a unionfs filesystem implementation, a solution more flexible than the current in-kernel unionfs proposal.Features:The filesystem has to be mounted after the roots are mounted when using the standard module. With unionfs-fuse, you can...

The goal of the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) Project is to explore the design, implementation, and uses of parallel I/O. PVFS serves as both a platform for parallel I/O research as well as a production file system for the cluster computing...

SSH Filesystem (also known as sshfs) is an open source FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) file system client based on the SSH (Secure Shell) FTP (File Transfer Protocol) protocol, which is very easy to configure and setup.Inspired by the SSHFS filesystemSSH...

ReiserFSprogs is an open source command-line software that includes various utilities to manage and configure a ReiserFS file system on Linux distributions.The Reiserfs project is a file system based on balanced tree algorithms.What is new in this...