Have you ever thought a particular project could be better if you could just control the file access directly? [Stavros Korokithakis] did, specifically for a backup program he was working on. What ...

This one is for the real Mac geeks out there. Amit Singh, author or Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, is widely recognized as an über Mac-geek and possibly the person outside of Apple that knows ...

While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue, for this project, the key issue is ...

Mac OS X supports a handful of common file systems—HFS+, FAT32, and exFAT, with read-only support for NTFS. It can do this because the file systems are supported by the OS X kernel. Formats such as ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Download Squad's Jay Savage has posted a detailed tutorial for setting up your Mac with MacFUSE, a tool that gives your Mac the potential to read and write to nearly any filesystem. Jay's tutorial ...

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 ...

Information on a filesystem can be encrypted to protect against unintended disclosure when a laptop is stolen; however, doing so doesn't allow you to access the files you've been working on if someone ...