The FS-Cache Project works with network filesystems like NFS to maintain a local on-disk cache of network files. The project is split into a kernel module (fscache) and a dæmon (cachefilesd), which ...
Logs, databases, and caches grow under /var. Learn why Linux admins monitor the /var directory to prevent disk issues and service failures.
RCU (read-copy update), a synchronization technique optimized for read-mostly data structures, recently was added to the Linux 2.6 kernel. This article describes how RCU improved the scalability of ...