Best File Systems for Linux

Shake project is a defragmenter that runs in userspace, without the need of patching the kernel and while the systems is used.There is nothing magic in that : it just works by rewriting fragmented files. But it has some heuristics that could make it more...

RemoteFSMan is a GUI frontend for FUSE-based remote file system. RemoteFSMan means Remote File System Manager. This is a user-friendly GUI frontend for curlftpfs and other remote file system using FUSE.Through this simple user interface, you can easily...

Cromfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. Cromfs is intended for permanently archiving gigabytes of big files that have a lot of redundancy. It is more aimed at heavy compression than at a light fingerprint.Features:Data, inodes, directories...

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...

Lessfs is a high throughput data deduplicating file system for Linux, implemented throught the FUSE drivers. Lessfs complies to the POSIX standard and is very useful for backup purposes as well as providing storage for virtual machine images. Lessfs is...

Unionfs is a stackable unification file system which can appear to merge the contents of several directories (branches), while keeping their physical content separate. It is useful for unified source tree management, merging the contents of a split...

GdMap is a software which allows to visualize disk space. Ever wondered why your hard disk is full or what directory and files take up most of the space? With GdMap these questions can be answered quickly. To display directory structures cushion treemaps...

ZFS is the most advanced file system ever invented. The ZFS-FUSE project makes it possible to create, mount, use and manage ZFS file systems under Linux, bringing the uncontested reliability and large feature set of ZFS to the Linux world.What ZFS offers...

incron is an "inotify cron" system. It works like the regular cron but is driven by filesystem events instead of time periods.incron contains two programs, a daemon called "incrond" (analogous to crond) and a table manipulator "incrontab" (like...

Data recovery program for NTFS file systems. Reads each block of the hard disk to and retrieves rebuilds file system tree on another partition.I wrote this program when one of my friends lost valuable data on an NTFS drive. It been used since then in...