COW snapshots are an important feature in modern OSes – the FreeBSD folks are justly proud of their built-in native support for the ZFS filesystem from Solaris. OpenZFS works fine with Linux, but it ...
Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts ...
Learn why Linux often doesn't need extra optimization tools and how simple, built-in utilities can keep your system running smoothly.