Top File Systems for Linux

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

EncFS is a multiplatform, completely free, easy to use/install and open source command-line software project that uses the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) and a Linux kernel module to provide an encrypted file system on GNU/Linux and UNIX-like operating...

cryptmount is an open source and freely distributed command-line software implemented in C and designed to be used on any GNU/Linux operating system for easy and quick mounting of encrypted filesystems. Features at a glance The software has been...

XFS is an open source high-performance journaling filesystem that has been designed especially for GNU/Linux operating systems, combining full 64-bit addressing, algoritms and scalable structures with advanced journaling technology.Features of the XFS...